Mar 12, 2016 Catalonia Calling #25 is called Catalanophobia, Foreigners and a Threatening Email and centres around a threatening email that I received from someone who didn't like my position on Catalan independence. Speaking personally, I'm completely in favour of freedom of speech and will defend people's right to express their opinion, however ludicrous. This includes holocaust deniers, the people who call the CUP women whores (a topic I've had quite a few disagreements about) and other sexist, racist and homophobic idiots everywhere. I think people stand or fall by the strength or weakness of their arguments and if you let morons speak out, you can identify them and the arguments that you make against them will end up convincing most reasonable people. However, I think there's a limit and that limit is when there's is an explicit threat or call to violence. Well, on Thursday, which incidentally was my 56th birthday and marked the day when I've spent over half my life in Catalonia, I received a threatening email. I was going to talk in today's Catalonia Calling about the parallels between the current political situation in Spain and the Transition to Democracy but I think this email is interesting enough to be worth dedicating an episode to.

Apr 2, 2016 Catalonia Calling #28 is called Talking Honestly About Islam and Islamism in Catalonia and, without blaming all Muslims, looks at the elements of Islam that are incompatible with secular Western democracies.