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Published in: ourEconomyWater should be a public good, not a commodity. Catalonia is showing howThe Terrassa Water Observatory puts citizens in the driver's seat of water management.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of the far right in SpainA revival of far-right sentiment is currently gripping Spain.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia mon amourIn which the author goes in pursuit of sanity, and is forced to take a stand.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why it keeps kicking off everywhere: ‘Order’ versus social justice from the Balkans, to the Middle East, to the AndesThis is a cold war fought by “leaders” willing to maintain their privilege at all costs, to the detriment of a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s response to protests is a dangerous step towards authoritarianism“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the paradox of unity“This polarisation between two forceful pressures towards unity is leaving many people like me without any options.” Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three nights with the citizens of GironaA general strike had been called across Catalonia and somewhere down there, winding through the new town on the far...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spanish nationalism loses the plotThe English nationalism unleashed by Brexit is not the same as the Spanish nationalism unleashed by the Catalan...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s politicised legal system on trialThis is not fascism, but it is postfascism. The degree to which the law is used and abused for political purposes in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why won't the European Parliament let these three Catalan MEPs in?If these three Catalan MEPs are not allowed to participate in the next legislature, Europe will have lost more than...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia: the trial will be about our ideological freedom"This case is not about proving that specific acts constitute an offence. It is about the deactivation of an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and Spanish nationalismOur only answer to self-serving nationalisms of every kind is a popular sovereignty that empowers everyone,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia: two half-truths don't make one truthJournalists and opinion-makers have a responsibility to inform and explain, not to divide and contribute to the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and postfascismA legacy that never went away has risen to the surface in Catalonia. And it explains why the independence movement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalan National Day: free speech under threatOtherwise mainstream politicians have stacked the deck against any possibility of negotiating over legitimate...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Two kinds of justice in SpainThe recent conviction of several Basque youths with heavy sentences and the charges against Catalan politicians...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWest Papua's struggle for independenceWest Papuans have it much harder than Scots or Catalans. In West Papua it is illegal to fly the independence flag. Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalan elections: all that for that?Facilitators, middlemen, discrete openings so that both sides could start to talk to – and not scream at – each...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the theatres of recognitionIsn’t it the case that fellow Europeans not only have the right to comment on the affairs of their neighbours but...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia’s December 21 electionsIt is time for the Spanish establishment to realise that their country, like any other democracy, can’t be...
