From Catalonia to Caledonia

A family misses a flight from Girona airport after the Spanish Guardia Civil detains a woman for daring to speak Catalan. [ link ] I wrote...

More and more people are coming to the same conclusion: being part of Spain is the road to nowhere. A political, economic and social cul-de-...

I am glad to report that I have recently discovered a couple of English-language blogs about Catalan/Spanish politics: Catalonia Direct Cata...

And now to the topic that triggered my previous post. Over the last few years I have noticed how there has been a proliferation of blogs ab...

If you read newspaper articles or blogs in English about Catalonia, I am sure you will have come across the issue of language policy in Cata...

New Year, same old story. Spanish nationalist violence in Valencia is part of the landscape like the orange trees of the countryside or the ...

There has been quite decent international coverage of the popular referendums on independence in Catalonia. This will be enough to anger the...

The last few weeks have seen a major controversy in Catalonia. The heirs of Agustí Centelles have sold his legacy to the Spanish Estate f...

I have written before about how the PP is a legacy party of yesteryear: founded by a Franco minister, and carrying on the banner of Spanish ...

It is official: the current Spanish political framework is a half-baked democracy hardly worthy of the name. I have written about it many ti...

A few days ago, I wrote how foreign correspondents write newspaper articles devoid of any insight and sometimes accuracy when reporting on p...