Guy
Hedgecoe

Print and broadcast journalist

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‘Robinson’

When I was an English-language teaching assistant in a small town in Castilla-La Mancha in the 1990s, one of the first things students would ask me was: "Do you know Robinson?". It took me a while to find out that Michael Robinson was an English ex-footballer who had...

The blame game

“Mr Sánchez, you only care about power and we only care about Spain.” – Pablo Casado. Another crisis hits Spain and once again the country’s political class responds not with unity, statesmanship and deliberation but with tribalism, conspiracy theories and the airing...

Recent work

Trial of Catalan ‘rebels’ fraught with political baggage

Twelve independence leaders to be tried by Spanish supreme court February 2, 2019. Published by The Irish Times. Spain’s foreign ministry announced this week it was preparing to launch a campaign that would explain to the world, with total transparency, the details,...

Spanish democracy goes on trial

Published by The New Republic. By the time Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez go on trial on February 12 they will have been in jail nearly 500 days. The grassroots organizers for Catalonian independence will be tried by Spain’s Supreme Court on charges of rebellion...

Barcelona prepares for ‘perfect storm’ as Spanish cabinet visits

A day of planned demonstrations in the city follows a year of turmoil for Catalonia December 21, 2018. Published by The Irish Times Earlier this week, the words “Go home Pedro” were sprayed in English on the outside of the Casa Llotja de Mar building in central...