ALL the bulls in all the bullrings of Spain can’t match the rage of the country’s right wing at the moment. They have been protesting and rioting in Madrid for two
FIVE years ago today – two days after the Catalan independence referendum, on October 1, 2017 – a general strike of all Catalan workers was organised in defence of the referendum and in outrage at the violence of the Spanish police.
TENS of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to mark the fifth
THERE are many incredible stories from Catalonia’s “wildcat” referendum in 2017, stories that reveal the ingenuity and determination required from tens of thousands of volunteers to hold a national plebiscite against the furious resistance of the central state.
EIGHT years since the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and five years since the Catalan 2017 referendum, how similar is the Catalan independence movement to the Scottish one? A good person to shed some light on this is William Thomson, who co-produces the Scotonomics podcast, which advocates alternative economics for an independent Scotland.
The National is in Catalonia as it marks five years since its independence referendum on October 1, 2017. What has changed in the independence movement since then, and what’s next for Catalonia? Ben Wray presents a series of exclusive special reports, starting today and running
IT will soon be the eighth anniversary of the 2014 independence referendum, which, in good ways and bad, forms the foundation of contemporary Scottish politics.
This article is the final in our in-depth series on the cost-of-living crisis.
THE cost of housing has been the aspect of the cost of living crisis which has perhaps been debated the least but what we spend on rent or on the mortgage makes up the largest single item of household spending.
BANK of England governor Andrew Bailey caused a stir when he told workers in February that he wanted to see them showing “quite clear restraint” in their wage claims, so as to prevent a wage-price inflation spiral.
