Barcelona on the brink amid arrests and elections
Embarrassing Champions League defeats, calamities contingency planning, an ageing core, and now a disgraced ex-president in custody; you might as well rename the club Barcewoena. However, this is not a…
An evening with J. H. Elliot: Scots & Catalans, Nations without States
Professor Reglus Emiritus of Modern History at Oxford University, J.H. Elliott is a recently acclaimed author of Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion, published last year. On the 18 February,…
Guardiola told to stop wearing ribbon
Manchester City manager and Catalonia native, Pep Guardiola has recently accepted a charge from the FA for wearing a ‘political symbol’ in the form of a yellow ribbon to support…
Is ‘Catalexit’ paving the way for other independence movements?
In the midst of the vibrancy of the Plaça de la Serradora in Barcelona, uniformed men sway in formation, spurred on by dogmas of strength, balance, courage and pragmatism, or…
Barcelona a catalyst for Catalan independence
Catalan independence is, perhaps, not the most obvious topic to be gracing the Sport section of this newspaper. With recent domestic experiences still fresh in the memory, our Comment writers…