Éamann Mac Donnchada
@almagroschool.bsky.social
Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
Utter drivel from Euractiv on Spain, as usual. The govt has got most of its legislation through this year and we're almost at the end of the parliamentary session anyway. And Sánchez's wife is not facing trial as she hasn't been charged with anything
Spain paralysed as judicial probes take centre stage
Spain paralysed as judicial probes take centre stage
In Madrid, there's a sense that corruption probes have never touched a serving prime minister and his inner circle so closely
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Utter drivel from Euractiv on Spain, as usual. The govt has got most of its legislation through this year and we're almost at the end of the parliamentary session anyway. And Sánchez's wife is not facing trial as she hasn't been charged with anything
If Sánchez calls an election early next year and you are surprised, you can't say you weren't warned
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If Sánchez calls an election early next year and you are surprised, you can't say you weren't warned
YouTube just served me a certain antipodean "Spain expert" explaining that there's a lot of slow and inefficient bureaucracy here😱🤢
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
YouTube just served me a certain antipodean "Spain expert" explaining that there's a lot of slow and inefficient bureaucracy here😱🤢
a moron who thinks wanting to be tried by a jury is gaming the system. next, wanting to be tried at all is gaming the system, let AI decide the sentence because the cops wdn't have arrested you if you weren't guilty
It comes after our @jessicaelgot.bsky.social revealed that criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury to increase chances of proceedings collapsing - and that govt was planning radical changes to limit jury trials by next election.
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
a moron who thinks wanting to be tried by a jury is gaming the system. next, wanting to be tried at all is gaming the system, let AI decide the sentence because the cops wdn't have arrested you if you weren't guilty
Always said Lammy was a fucking moron
💥Jury trials for all except most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by David Lammy.
Proposals drew swift backlash from senior lawyers who said they would not reduce court backlogs & could “destroy justice as we know it”.
Proposals drew swift backlash from senior lawyers who said they would not reduce court backlogs & could “destroy justice as we know it”.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Always said Lammy was a fucking moron
this the first time I've seen a Spanish journo saying outloud what has been obvious for months: 229 people died in the Valencia floods bc the regional leader Carlos Mazón was too busy to issue a warning in time bc he was fucking in a car park
Alucinante que ninguno de los dos, adultos de 50 años, cayera en que no era el mejor día para echar un polvo furtivo en un parking. A él por supuesto hay que tirarlo por la ventana pero ella cabeza, tampoco.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
this the first time I've seen a Spanish journo saying outloud what has been obvious for months: 229 people died in the Valencia floods bc the regional leader Carlos Mazón was too busy to issue a warning in time bc he was fucking in a car park
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The pposition she has been nominated for is the equivalent of the DPP in Ireland and England/Wales not the attorney general. Spain's attorney general equivalent is a civil servant even most politics nerds cdn't name www.mjusticia.gob.es/es/instituci...
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The pposition she has been nominated for is the equivalent of the DPP in Ireland and England/Wales not the attorney general. Spain's attorney general equivalent is a civil servant even most politics nerds cdn't name www.mjusticia.gob.es/es/instituci...
Right-neofascist bloc on 48% Social democrats-left at 38%. Who forms a govt will be decided by the regional nationalists. And the popularity of the right and neofascists suggests that a booming economy doesn't make people happy
Spain, Target Point poll:
PP-EPP: 29% (-3)
PSOE-S&D: 28% (+1)
VOX-PfE: 19% (+2)
Sumar-LEFT|G/EFA: 6% (-1)
Podemos-LEFT: 4%
SALF-ECR|NI: 2%
+/- vs. 10-11 September 2025
Fieldwork: 17-19 November 2025
Sample size: 1,200
➤ europeelects.eu/spain
PP-EPP: 29% (-3)
PSOE-S&D: 28% (+1)
VOX-PfE: 19% (+2)
Sumar-LEFT|G/EFA: 6% (-1)
Podemos-LEFT: 4%
SALF-ECR|NI: 2%
+/- vs. 10-11 September 2025
Fieldwork: 17-19 November 2025
Sample size: 1,200
➤ europeelects.eu/spain
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Right-neofascist bloc on 48% Social democrats-left at 38%. Who forms a govt will be decided by the regional nationalists. And the popularity of the right and neofascists suggests that a booming economy doesn't make people happy
it will not be the same situation as in Israel bc there is no civil marriage for opposite sex or same faith marriages either, the state only recognises marriages done in yr national-religious community (blame the Ottomans) and gives some recognition to common law relationships
Usually, residency isn't required to obtain a marriage license in an EU country.
So what today's EU's supreme court ruling does is put Eastern EU (and 🇮🇹) in the same gay marriage category as 🇮🇱.
All explained here: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-jus...
So what today's EU's supreme court ruling does is put Eastern EU (and 🇮🇹) in the same gay marriage category as 🇮🇱.
All explained here: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-jus...
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
it will not be the same situation as in Israel bc there is no civil marriage for opposite sex or same faith marriages either, the state only recognises marriages done in yr national-religious community (blame the Ottomans) and gives some recognition to common law relationships
I don't share Corbyn's views (to put it mildly) but I admire his view of politics as a moral, lifelong vocation. Too many dilletantes and gap year activists in left politics
Jeremy Corbyn: my apology to Your Party members
The former Labour leader has turned his back on his old party – and is ready to lead a new movement
🗣️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Corbyn
The former Labour leader has turned his back on his old party – and is ready to lead a new movement
🗣️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn: my apology to Your Party members
The former Labour leader has turned his back on his old party – and is ready to lead a new movement
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I don't share Corbyn's views (to put it mildly) but I admire his view of politics as a moral, lifelong vocation. Too many dilletantes and gap year activists in left politics
The lawyer who's leading the fake union Manos Limpios's persecution of Sánchez's wife quits bc he's realised, better late than never, that the charges against her are politically motivated. No doubt Euractiv and the FT will reconsider their reporting of this matter
www.eldiario.es/politica/abo...
www.eldiario.es/politica/abo...
El abogado de Manos Limpias en el caso de Begoña Gómez renuncia y acusa a la asociación de “activismo político”
El letrado Carlos Perales afirma que lo que se inició como un “encargo técnico” se ha situado “en el terreno de la controversia política y mediática”
www.eldiario.es
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The lawyer who's leading the fake union Manos Limpios's persecution of Sánchez's wife quits bc he's realised, better late than never, that the charges against her are politically motivated. No doubt Euractiv and the FT will reconsider their reporting of this matter
www.eldiario.es/politica/abo...
www.eldiario.es/politica/abo...
it's a common experience when you've been on the receiving end of a racist jibe to be told that it was just a bit of fun and you're the one making the problem by objecting to it
Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
it's a common experience when you've been on the receiving end of a racist jibe to be told that it was just a bit of fun and you're the one making the problem by objecting to it
I could be the King of Belgium in two years, it's as likely as any of Sam and Jony's promises to come true
Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I could be the King of Belgium in two years, it's as likely as any of Sam and Jony's promises to come true
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I can see a consensus forming that the blame for all Labour's disastrous policy decisions lies with the Irishman and the Jew. Maybe it might be more useful to ask how come the Labour party elite listens to them and why it has no social democratc ideas of its own
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I can see a consensus forming that the blame for all Labour's disastrous policy decisions lies with the Irishman and the Jew. Maybe it might be more useful to ask how come the Labour party elite listens to them and why it has no social democratc ideas of its own
No to sane washing criminal lunatics
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
No to sane washing criminal lunatics
Dude led Hezbollah forces fighting in support of the Assad regime , responsible for the bulk of the 500,000 deaths in the Syrian Civil War. A good day for justice and human rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hezbollah chief of staff killed in Beirut airstrike, Israeli military says
Militant group confirms Haytham Ali Tabatabai was killed in attack that dramatically escalates tensions in the region
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Dude led Hezbollah forces fighting in support of the Assad regime , responsible for the bulk of the 500,000 deaths in the Syrian Civil War. A good day for justice and human rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Some acountability at last at the military level
IDF chief officially dimisses Oct. 7’s heads of intel, operations, Southern Command https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-officially-dimisses-oct-7s-heads-of-intel-operations-southern-command/
IDF chief officially dimisses Oct. 7’s heads of intel, operations, Southern Command
Zamir ousts multiple officers involved in failures, most of whom already resigned; censures current intel, air force and navy chiefs, but they will keep their roles
www.timesofisrael.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some acountability at last at the military level
Reposted by Éamann Mac Donnchada
We are living in a satire
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We are living in a satire
Yep. Not much money left after paying for the nuke program and the rockets and help for the Houthis and Hezbollah
Authoritarian states facing popular backlash often move their capitals away from where people protest them: Yangon -> Naypyidaw, Cairo -> NAC, and now Tehran -> ???. Don't let the regime pretend it's about anything else - the ecological problems are always due to the regime's own mismanagement.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yep. Not much money left after paying for the nuke program and the rockets and help for the Houthis and Hezbollah
War with Venezuela is whose "project" , I 🤔
FWIW, RUMINT, but pretty reliable:
1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.
2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”
3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.
4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.
1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.
2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”
3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.
4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
War with Venezuela is whose "project" , I 🤔
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This guy has a political mind like a Swiss watch, a fascinating interview with exquisitely coded messages for the government and opposition.
www.eldiario.es/politica/ait...
www.eldiario.es/politica/ait...
Aitor Esteban (PNV): "Si yo fuera Sánchez iría pensando en cómo y cuándo convocar elecciones"
El presidente del PNV cree que la ruptura de Junts es definitiva, pone en duda la legitimidad democrática de mantener una legislatura "con una mayoría parlamentaria en contra", niega que su partido ex...
www.eldiario.es
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This guy has a political mind like a Swiss watch, a fascinating interview with exquisitely coded messages for the government and opposition.
www.eldiario.es/politica/ait...
www.eldiario.es/politica/ait...
As I have said 598 times before the real problem is not the Brexit nutters, it's the notionally pro-Rejoin,supposedly cosmopolitan commentariat and "trade expert" elite. Like the Bourbons they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing
Jon Freedlamd in the G.
Are these on offer?
The customs union is reserved for members. Full stop. So not that.
And SM for goods only? Europe will wanr ita own say in how the UK integrates. It won't just allow cherry-picking.
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Are these on offer?
The customs union is reserved for members. Full stop. So not that.
And SM for goods only? Europe will wanr ita own say in how the UK integrates. It won't just allow cherry-picking.
1
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As I have said 598 times before the real problem is not the Brexit nutters, it's the notionally pro-Rejoin,supposedly cosmopolitan commentariat and "trade expert" elite. Like the Bourbons they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing