Guy
Hedgecoe
Print and broadcast journalist
Behind Spain’s news
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“…I believe ardently that real memory, not historical and documentary memory but living memory, will be perpetuated only through literature. Because literature alone is capable of reinventing and regenerating truth.” – Jorge Semprún. In the early 1940s, as Spain...
In a culture so often dominated not just by winning, but also those other prized skills of ‘owning’, trolling and tooting your own horn, it’s refreshing to find a radically different mindset. I was recently lucky enough to visit Donostia, where eight locals were...
Country braces for upheaval as it celebrates anniversary of democratic transition October 31st, 2018. Published by Politico MADRID — Forty years after its creation, Spain’s constitution is back in the political limelight. Drafted three years after the death of...
Spanish region is split between unionists and separatists, a year on from independence vote Unionist activists remove pro-independence symbols in the middle of the night in Canet de Mar. Photo: Guy Hedgecoe September 28th, 2018. Published by The Irish Times It is two...
Spain’s transition out of fascism occurred within living memory. And it meant ignoring the dead. September 17th, 2018. Published by The New Republic “Exclusive: Photograph of the remains of Franco,” a Twitter user posted in late August. It was a joke: The...