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Pablo Castaño is a freelance journalist and political scientist who teaches at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has written for Le Monde Diplomatique, El País, The Independent, and Jacobin.
The rise of a new far-right Catalan nationalist party is a sinister development in European politics, showing how voters wearied by inequality and frustrated by failed devolution projects are seeking solace in blood-and-soil populism.
A ‘filthy leftist’ in the eyes of his opponents, Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, brought radical energy to the papacy – but his reformism had limits, and now his successor seems likely to push the Catholic Church firmly rightwards.