Ashifa Kassam
latest news & developments
Catalan separatists win election and claim it as yes vote for breakaway
Spain set for political crisis as regional government election result spurs coalition on with plans for independence
Spain’s leftist mayors walk the talk as they take office
Times are a-changing in Spain as the new office bearers embrace the secular state and do away with cars.
Madrid will go to the last gran standing
The mayoral race is down to a pair of self-styled "little grandmothers" who are poles apart in their politics but equally tenacious and astute.
Setback for Catalan separatists
Spain’s Constitutional Court suspends planned vote for independence for up to five months.
Spain jittery on Scottish secession
Madrid has gone on the defensive as Scots vote in a referendum for independence from the United Kingdom.