BLEARY-eyed amazement and pride as an impressive though strangely logical result in the Catalan elections is confirmed. Mariano Rajoy’s Article 155 intervention has failed. He must resign, but all of us here know he won’t.
IT’S Christmas in Catalonia too on 25th December. You can tell by the shop windows and by those manically rushing around and buying the stuff we all do at this time of year.
FOR the last three months some of my neighbours have been pasting up copies of posters on a massive glass window of an unused premises outside our block.
LIFE goes on in Catalonia. Of course it does. And when friends and relatives ask me lately if everything is alright here, if the family are safe, if we’re steering clear of trouble, I tell them of course we are. We get up, go to work, go to school, pay our taxes and do the shopping just as we always have done. There’s no police van around the corner full of riot police waiting to give us a violent beating (although some of the private stuff by off-duty Spanish police on social media implies otherwise).
