Spanish Version An imminent Catalan referendum on independence declared illegal by the Constitutional Court. Here we are, again, hesitating on the brink of domestic chaos, as Barcelona and Madrid are at logger heads, the perennial political hot potato that is Catalan independence. The British have suffered two divisive and bitter referendum campaigns in recent years, the Brexit campaign and that of Scottish independence. The Scottish nationalist campaign makes a natural

Spanish Version The 9/11 attacks were shocking. And so were the 2004 Madrid train bombings. After all, they represented the first major terrorist atrocities committed by modern jihadism on Western soil. Accordingly, our politicians framed the events with various cognitive metaphors pertaining to the domain of exceptionality, madness and irrationality. Fast forward 15 years and regardless of hundreds of additional attacks, yielding thousands of deaths and casualties, it wou