From Catalonia to Caledonia

Two years ago, I wrote about the double standards of many governments when dealing with the self-determination movements across the world. S...

Watching from afar, via the Catalan news channel www.3cat24.cat , the massive civic demonstration in Barcelona against the ruling by the Sp...

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-...

http://www.euronews.net/2010/02/12/catalonia-independence-or-autonomy / Nice to see the Spanish nationalist lobby embarrasing themselves wit...

In the end, only four MPs will be prosecuted by the Police. Full details of the story can be found at the BBC News website. The extent of t...

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...

In the end, it became an embarrassment. After having the nation(s) worked up in a frenzy about the presence of Nick Griffin MEP, leader of t...

Wow, big news today. The director general of the Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional (the head of the Spanish police service) has agreed toda...

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...

These days I hardly write about Catalan politics. It is far too depressing and it only serves to highlight the absolute mediocrity of Catala...