Catalonia Today

LESS STRICT “Right now I’m in the south of Scotland and I have the general feeling that the measures are less restrictive than in Catalonia”

THE POWER OF READING “Nine months after offering his voice, he still reads over the phone, but now only on Sundays”

FLOWERING EMPATHY “Confining ourselves has helped us to put ourselves in the shoes of other colleagues”

THE HARDEST THING “You take the hand of someone you barely know to try to make up for the lack of their family, even though that is irreplaceable”

ON WAKING UP “They asked why their relatives were not coming. How do you tell them that there’s a global pandemic and that everyone is at home?”

Last year a life-changing pandemic spread around the world. Here, people from all walks of life recount their personal Covid stories

In December, Spain’s high court in Catalonia, the TSJC, ruled that 25% of classes in Catalan schools must be in Spanish, a decision many see as an attack on the Catalan language. Also in December, the...

The negative effects of the pandemic are many and serious. Apart from the thousands who have died or become ill, others have lost earnings or jobs, while entire sectors have been blighted. Meanwhile, the...