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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 · 10h

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

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 12h

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

Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 13h

A very interesting and hopeful take on energy.

Allan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 13h

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

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 17h

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

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 17h

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

Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 1d

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

¡Viva La Pepa!

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

Fair enough, I accept we have no way of knowing whether it was great or small, but a missed opportunity it certainly was, while my point about the inexistence of a Lab/Con duopoly back then likewise stands.
Most of all, I hope said duopoly ends but without being replaced by something worse.

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

Oh, I almost forgot that back in 1919 there was no Tory/Labour duopoly but in fact the Liberals were in power. Their failure to pass PR must count as a great missed opportunity, both for themselves and, especially, the country.

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

Maybe I'm missing something here because Gibson is not and never has been British, but was born in the USA and merely grew up in Australia.

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

Un año ya desde la dana/A year ago now since floods in Valencia which 229 died:
elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Regreso a los lugares de la tragedia: “Cuando llueve, no duermo. La cama se mueve y parece que estoy flotando, quiero nadar”

Supervivientes, víctimas y vecinos realojados hablan con EL PAÍS un año después. “Se ha quedado en el paisaje un filtro color barro. Es un poco desagradable”

elpais.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

It should be called Hurricane Exxon.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

Screenshot that says "Melissa has passed over waters made 1.4°C warmer, on average, by climate change." and "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely." along with a map of Hurricane Melissa's path.

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