Millions of young people around the world will never read Dostoyevsky or Kafka, much less Aristotle’s Poetics, so they will probably never come to know the term anagnorisis – the transition from ignorance to knowledge – and not even arbitrariness, like the one that operates in…
This end of the legislature increasingly resembles the last term of Felipe González as president of the government. The harassment and takedown with which he was besieged between 1993 and 1996 by his now conservative sympathizers and admirers, whether politicians, economic powers, or media,…
The Ceuta crisis is becoming a nightmare for Pedro Sánchez’s Government. The Executive seems to be in a quagmire where the more it moves, the more it seems to be swallowed down. It needs to find a solution to get out of the mud or the…
We form a society very prone to tantrums, volatile apocalypse, and insubstantiality. As if our only form of ethics consisted of feeling bad, blaming ourselves for a while, flagellating ourselves another, and starting over. The worst of these days has been the data from the…
The best news of today’s Diada is precisely that it can be celebrated in freedom. It has been 50 years since the Assemblea de Catalunya and the Consell de Forces Polítiques were able to promote a demonstration in Sant Boi de Llobregat that has been repeated continuously ever since. The…
Like those mothers who take great care in the kitchen to celebrate the long-awaited return of their child after a long period that has felt endless to them. Telecinco has given it their all with “the return of the prodigal son home,” just as Carlos Sobera said in the presentation of the new contest…
The signing of José Luis Trapero as general director of the Police was an electoral asset that Salvador Illa used in the Catalan campaign. In fact, the current president announced it in a candidates’ debate on TV3 in May 2024. Such was the importance and charisma of the…
When journalists get pretentious we say that news is everything that the powerful do not want to be known and, when we are more realistic, we conclude that it is everything that represents something new and that draws attention. That is why a bombshell news would have been that the…
These days the metaphor of World War II bombs that resurface in the dried riverbeds of European rivers, drained by the climate crisis, is used. A projectile that has reached today without exploding, as a legacy of an era in which totalitarianism…
Police statistics go one way and public perception goes another. This is the key to everything. In many towns in inland Catalonia, there has been an increase in the immigrant population, mainly from North Africa, which has changed the landscape of the…