The Catalans have no trouble telling their story of oppression through culture. The Scots find it trickier.
Articles on Spain
Displaying 261 - 280 of 329 articles
As life gets faster and working hours get longer, it’s tempting to think the Sandman is paying us ever shorter visits.
Why would the Philippine president risk alienating an important and generous ally?
With two votes failing to produce a government, caretaker PM Mariano Rajoy is running out of options.
For many contemporary observers, the Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler and Mussolini. But then things changed. Why?
Lionel Messi is not the first footballer to break financial laws and he probably won’t be the last.
Madrid may hold the key to Scotland’s future – for several reasons.
Islamic State lost ground, Colombia got a chance at lasting peace, and the Pope sounded a liberated note on homosexuality.
Spain couldn’t form a government after its last election, so it had to try again. And it looks like the radicals are shut out.
Spain is already calling for joint sovereignty but Gibraltarians are unlikely to stand for that.
As Spain found out at its last election, voting for change is one thing, but achieving it is quite another.
When villages across Spain, Portugal and Italy are abandoned, the regions’ unique culture and heritage is lost, too.
If Britain votes to leave, residents of the Rock won’t come along quietly.
The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
Proposed labour reforms in France have sparked mass protests led by young people who want to reclaim democracy from the elite.
A long time before their recent landmark concert in Cuba, The Rolling Stones played Spain: less than a year after the death of General Franco.
More than two months after the election, Spanish politicians still can’t provide the people with the government they demanded.
Parliamentarians have again failed to form a coalition, nearly three months after the election.
Presumed consent is not the way forward.
Spain’s most controversial sport has been in strife lately. But anthropologist Robin Irvine explains why a year working on a bull-breeding estate made him optimistic for its future.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer in Spanish and European Studies, University of Bath
-
Lecturer in International Studies, University of Technology Sydney
-
Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, University of Huddersfield
-
Profesor de Ciencia Política, Universitat de València
-
Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, Swansea University
-
Early Career Researcher in Spanish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
-
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Cardiff University
-
Professor of Politics, University of Bristol
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Aston University
-
Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
-
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
-
Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
-
Full Professor in Global Political Economy, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
-
Lecturer in Management and Economic History, University of Leicester