Contrary to most people’s beliefs that the age of colonialism ended in 1994 with the end of apartheid in South Africa, Spain still to this day colonizes a part of Morocco. The city of Ceuta and Melilla, along with a chain of small islands off the coast, make-up the lands of the Spanish colony in […]

Gibraltar was ceded to Britain by Spain legally according to the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Surely this treaty ended any reasonable Spanish legal claim to it. Ceuta, Melilla and the rest of the colonized islands are military occupied by the Spanish military. Whilst The UK government give the rights to its […]

The catalans have never been closer to the independence before, with flags, posters and graffiti with Visca Catalunya Lliure wherever you go. In fact the Catalan government have gone so far as to decide the referendum day. The 9 of november 2014 is the day when the catalans will vote for or against the referendum. […]

The Government of Spain finds itself in the midst of a massive corruption Scandal.  The treasurer of the governing party (the right wing Partido Popular) has been jailed for alleged charges of money laundering and fraud.  Shortly after Mariano Rajoy the Spanish Prime Minister himself was accused of taking illegal payments from slush funds.  There […]

Recently Julie Girling a British MEP was insulted and harassed via social media sites by Spanish trolls for standing up for the people of Gibraltar. In a world where the lines between reality and cyber reality blur and are hard to distinguish at times, such threats should not be taken lightly. The internet is a […]