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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲

@madridcorro.bsky.social

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Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements. Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 55m

Yup, sadly regional inequality is another massive issue.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 57m

Fun fact: To this day they make "pastes" in the Mexican state of Hidalgo because Cornish migrants worked in the mines there in the XIX century. For the same reason it is home to the country's oldest footie club.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 8h

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif.
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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 8h

Economists have been bemoaning the UK's low productivity for years and, sadly, this is just another deep-seated problem Brexit has just compounded and you're spot on when you note UKG is in denial.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 8h

As we say in Spain, "La ignorancia es atrevida" (ignorance is daring).

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

"Socialism for the rich" I think they call it.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Now for a bit of very welcome and forward-looking good news.

Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 1d

A very interesting and hopeful take on energy.

Allan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 1d

I sincerely believe this is fundamentally important:
allanpaterson.substack.com/p/the-energy...

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Las cloacas del estado italiano:
elpais.com/internaciona...

Un arresto resucita en Italia la oscura trama de mafia, neofascismo y servicios secretos en la Guerra Fría

Detenido un policía acusado de hacer desaparecer en 1980 el guante del asesino de Mattarella, hermano del actual presidente de la República, un caso clave que se conecta con el crimen de Aldo Moro y l...

elpais.com

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Has to be Totally Wired for me. Saw them in 1982, unforgettable.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, that isn't raising the bar very high.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

As for full-year figures, record numbers of tourists visited Spain in 2024 and we're on course for another record in 2025: ine.es/dyngs/Prensa...

Nota de Prensa: Estadística de Movimientos Turísticos en Fronteras (FRONTUR). Diciembre 2024 y año 2024. Datos provisionales.

Fecha de publicación: 2025-02-03 09:00:00.0

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

And that's just in Valencia.

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Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social · 2d

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2d

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 2d

He'll cry all the way to the bank but however you look at it, there is no need whatsoever for a medieval institution in the 21st century.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 2d

FYI @kathylove.bsky.social "China's over-reliance on investment and exports to power its $19 trillion economy appears to have reached a limit." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 2d

I avoid QT like the plague when visiting the UK, however I was most impressed with Faiza Shaheen's book about inequality, "Know your place".

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

I fear it is only an accident of geography that has spared the UK any such vale of tears so far rather than insight, as you say.

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed, jobs for the boys, riding the gravy train. An old fellow student I remember speaking out against the HoL now sits there after riding the gravy train as an MP.
All told the prospects for political reform in the UK look dim, but I hope time will prove me wrong.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

Delusions of grandeur, again.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

But when they lose, many lose their seats, although then again there is the revolving door or for the older ones, the HoL, which is a cushy number indeed.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

¡El Divino!

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, which is why they never lift a finger although it amazes me that they don't mind spending up to 18 years in opposition e.g. Labour, 1979-97.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

It is quite a dilemma, but I suspect the duopoly will ignore rather than address it.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, the prospect of extremists taking power has been an argument against PR in the UK for as long as I can remember.

However, polls now show that FPTP could not only put extremists in power but moreover give them the same disproportionate majority the duopoly have so often enjoyed.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

¡Viva La Pepa!

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