From Catalonia to Caledonia

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will have noticed that I have not been writing about Catalan/Spanish politics for a while. Fra...

Rab is back with a scoop: the Spanish state in its present form is the legacy of Franco’s regime and it condones Fascism. OK, if you have re...

Well, Rab has been rather busy: changing jobs during the most severe financial crisis since 1929, moving home again, DIY, decorations, plann...

Over the last year or so, there is one man that has become a source of pain for some in the financial services sector. Some journalists don’...

Someone asked me the other day how Spanish democracy compares to other European states given its troubled history. I have a reply ready for ...

If you are a regular of this blog, you will have noticed that nowadays I don’t write about Catalan/Spanish politics very often. It is too de...

During the last few weeks, I also thought about writing a series of articles about the (financial) mess we are in, and how banks and financi...

For months, I had been planning to write an article about Barrack Obama. Its title was meant to be “Obama and the promise of change”. But th...