Mexico wants Spain to apologise for conquering the Aztecs
When Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first female president later today, Felipe VI, the King of Spain, will not be present.…
Is anti-tourism becoming Spain’s Brexit?
Believing that membership of the European Union was undeniably beneficial for the UK economy, many Remainers struggled to understand why…
How does Spain solve a problem like Carles Puigdemont?
Last week saw dramatic events in Catalonia as Carles Puigdemont, wanted for almost seven years by Spanish justice for spearheading the region’s…
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont escapes arrest – again
There was something fitting about the name of the thoroughfare in which Carles Puigdemont was welcomed back to Barcelona on…
Spain isn’t afraid of England at all
England play Spain this evening in the final of the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. On Wednesday evening England’s last-minute…
There’s one place in Spain that hasn’t turned against tourists
Would you like to spend the winter in Benidorm? I guess it depends on the alternatives, but I wasn’t surprised…
Pedro Sanchez may come to regret passing Spain’s amnesty law
When has any nation’s government amnestied hundreds of people facing criminal charges in return for the votes that allow it…
Javier Milei won’t stop insulting Pedro Sanchez’s wife
The Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires was recalled to Madrid yesterday after Argentina’s president Javier Milei described the wife of…
Catalonia has gone cold on independence
Is Catalonia’s independence movement dead in the water? Elections held in the region on Sunday reveal that support for separatist…
Do Spaniards have the right to eat in restaurants at midnight?
Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, raised eyebrows during last summer’s election campaign when she arranged to be…
How Catalan separatists are taking control of immigration
In Spain’s general election last July, the right-wing Partido Popular and the even more right-wing Vox won 170 seats, just…
Why are the Spanish so loyal to the EU?
An upright Englishman, some years after marrying into a Spanish family, finally breaks his cardinal rule. In a moment of…
Pedro Sanchez’s grubby deal to stay in power
In 2017 the Catalan premier, Carles Puigdemont, having first organised an illegal referendum and then declared unilateral independence from Spain,…
The Catalan volte face that has disgusted Spain
This weekend saw protests across Spain after the acting prime minister, socialist Pedro Sánchez, agreed to a general amnesty for…
Spaniards are horrified by an amnesty for separatists
When has a government ever offered an amnesty to fugitives from justice in order to stay in office? That’s what’s…
Can Spain’s monarchy survive?
‘We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as…
Spain’s controlled anarchy
Life expectancy in Spain is 83 years – amongst the highest in the world. Deep, trusting relationships with family and…
When will Spain’s political paralysis end?
Sunday’s general election in Spain was supposed to answer the question: will Spain be governed for the next four years…
How Spain’s politics succumbed to radicalism
If Spain’s left-wing government loses tomorrow’s general election, thousands of people including many senior civil servants stand to lose their…
Can Spain forgive Pedro Sánchez?
Voters in Spain’s general election on 23 July have a clear-cut choice. They can choose to continue with the left-wing coalition currently…
What the rise of Vox means for Spain
Vox, the most right-wing of Spain’s mainstream political parties, has emerged considerably strengthened from Sunday’s local and regional elections. With…
Spain's shift towards the radical right
Yesterday’s snap election in Castile-León, one of the 17 regional autonomies into which Spain is divided, was another excellent day…
Can Spain save its dying villages?
In a little village on the Spanish Meseta, I once asked an old lady about the next village some three…
Spain's growing culture war over General Franco
There are hundreds of mass graves dotted around the Spanish countryside. In roadside ditches, down hillside gullies, dumped in pits…
Spain's pardoning of Catalan separatists may backfire
In one of his adventures on the highways of 17th-century Spain, Don Quixote encounters a gang of prisoners ‘manacled and…
