Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.
After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.
On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.
This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.
After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.
After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.
As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.
He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.
He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.
Contact jon@theolivepress.es
Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)
“Incredibly it will now take the Junta up to two years to decide whether to send the application on to Brussels for final approval.”
That’s not incredible, that’s normal. It’ll probably take 10 years in the end. I love how the Junta expedite such important matters for their Olive Oil producers… not.
It doesnt take them 2 years to decide to send it Brussels, it takes them 2 years to do the work LOL Remember they are talking about “La Junta” so are “funcionarios” which it think translates to: Coffee drinking, lazy, ineffective, constant break take workers, of course that is when they are at work as there are all the holidays and “Puentes” they have to take.
It’s not just the Junta. I’ve been dealing with private oil companies, dealers, packers and some of the co-ops across Andalucia for a while now and it usually takes an extraordinarily long time to get anything done, even simple things. It’s no wonder most of the oil is sold in bulk to be bottled elsewhere (Italy). Anything more complicated than that is beyond most. Why “complica la vida”?