"After what happened in Scotland and the United Kingdom, the Catalan Process continues and moves forward. We feel strengthened by the good example of a European democracy that has allowed voting. This is the way forward." These were the words of Artur Mas in November 2014, a few days after the November 9th referendum, the prelude to the referendum that Carles Puigdemont would lead three years later. Since then, and throughout the peak years of the Process, Catalonia has repeatedly reflected the Scottish case. Eleven years after that moment, the reality of the country and the issues occupying the Catalan political agenda distance him from the man who was a role model.

Jere Mateo swam to the beach at Portpatrick, a beautiful little village on the Scottish coast. The locals watched him emerge from the sea, tired and unable to understand where he had come from. "I'm swimming from Ireland," he told them. Mateo had been swimming for twelve hours across the Northern Strait, from Northern Ireland to Scotland, overcoming low temperatures, tides, and jellyfish. "They applauded me. I was so happy that I forgot about my walking problems and fell," he explains, smiling. He had just become the first person to make this solo crossing. The first Catalan and the second person with reduced mobility. And the first with brain damage. "It was magical. During those hours of swimming, I was able to think a lot and organize many ideas. I came out at peace with myself," he adds.

A video shows US President Donald Trump driving a golf cart around a green in southern Scotland. The courses he plays on are located at the luxurious Trunberry resort in Ayrshire, and have belonged to him since 2014. The president is escorted by about twenty other carts, with security personnel and caddiesOne of those aides walking in front of the president discards a white ball he had in his pocket and surreptitiously places it on the grass. It will be the next ball the president will hit, having been placed in the ideal location to make it easier for him to throw. The appearance of the images has gone viral on social media because they reveal what was a common rumor: that Trump cheats at his favorite sport.

Instead of Mar-a-Lago (Florida), where Donald Trump takes refuge almost every weekend of his presidency to play golf in the so-called Winter White House, the President of the United States has chosen his courses in Scotland to get away from Washington for a few days. and, by the way, also the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein and the declassification of the pedophile files, which has been postponed until at least September. Trump will arrive this Friday and remain until next Tuesday. And in August, Vice President JD Vance will visit the United Kingdom. He and his family will spend a few days vacationing in the Cotswolds, one of the most charming areas in England.

The CEO's first barometer of the year confirmed that indicators related to the territorial debate in Catalonia are returning to levels prior to 2012. Support for Catalan independence has fallen below 40% for the first time in a poll, reaching its worst figure since 2011, the year before the start of the Process. Thus, 54% of Catalans would vote against breaking away from Spain today, the same percentage as in the November barometer, while 38% would vote in favor, two points less than four months ago.

The Scottish government has lost a complex political and legal battle with many implications. sex In the aforementioned legal framework—woman or man—it makes clear that it is based on biological sex. Therefore, a gender recognition certificate does not change someone's sex, which is associated with the condition at birth, although it can change gender identity and can be a symbol of that identity. The decision was made unanimously by the five judges.

 The front-page pictures in the UK’s Saturday papers said it all. An inflatable blimp of the prime minister, some three metres high and with thumb turned up in a characteristic gesture of optimism, soared above a smiling Johnson himself in the now Conservative north-eastern town of Hartlepool along a shoreline where the ship-building industry had once thrived and where the Labour Party had reigned supreme since 1964.