Number-crunching: who will Pedro Sánchez pact with (if anyone)?
Only one of the major parties competing for votes in Spain’s 10 November general election ought to be happy. The far-right Vox, which had no
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Opinion: Will the Basques be next?
Ask Basques about whether they were shocked by the scale of the police brutality and judicial repression of the Catalan independence movement in recent weeks,
Opinion: Catalonia, Brexit, Donald Trump and nationalism
The region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, home to Barcelona, struggles with divisive politics over its identity and unification with the Spanish state. This divide
Up close on the ‘Freedom March’ to Barcelona
First came the motorbikes, then the bicycles, then a 100-year-old woman in a wheelchair. Finally the massive crowd, one of the five Marches for Freedom that
Opinion: Chess, Brexit, ‘El Procés’ and referenda
I am the reigning chess champion of my family. As teenagers, my older brother and I would play constantly and he, the family tactical and
Opinion: Brexit – what now? A letter from Scotland (and Galicia)
Between 2011 and 2014 the entire world was following the events in Scotland with full attention. For many of us it was very important to
Opinion: Spain – a country between two extremes
Albert Camus once described a nationalist as someone who loves their country too much. I recently wrote a small reflection on Catalonia based on my
Opinion: Brexit Blues
My wife and I are just a few weeks away from being what amounts to illegals in a country (in fact, an entire continent) where
Wales, Galicia, Celts and the Dying Gaul
There is a word that comes up, in one form or another, over a vast area of Eurasia and that reveals, somewhat subtly, a great deal
Opinion: Brexit and democracy
I am writing this in reply to the article by David Rouse (Opinion: Tribalism and polarisation, from Brexit to Catexit, published 14 February). I am