Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett

Comment: US-Spain clash on Yemen mission

Spanish politics has taken a fascinating turn towards the international stage since the...

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Comment: Abascal's dangerous rhetoric in Argentina

Comment: Abascal's arrogant, disloyal Israel trip Comment: Let's hope no one else gets shot......

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Comment: the Podemos-Sumar implosion

I remember seeing the excitment on young Spaniards faces back on the first Monday in June in...

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Comment: Abascal's arrogant, disloyal Israel trip

Comment: Sánchez's dramatic Israel trip Vox leader Santiago Abascal has suddenly appeared in...

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Conversation with Simon Hunter on Spain, Sánchez, the amnesty deal and...croquetagate

Following the conversation with last week, here is the next one for you, with Simon Hunter, who...

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More video comments...Substack too

I am going to do more video comments for you too over the next few weeks and months, about Spain...

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Comment: Would Sánchez like to be the President of a third Spanish republic?

The First Minister of Madrid, Ayuso (PP), suggested yesterday that Sánchez would like to become...

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Conversation with Rupert Cocke on the Spanish political situation

Click to listen. writes here on Substack and likes to mix philosophy with unfolding events. We...

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Comment: political tension in Spain skyrockets after police charge anti-amnesty protestors

The right takes to Spanish streets, with two different strategies Vox and the "spontaneous"...

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Comment: the right takes to Spanish streets

Vox and the "spontaneous" protests against Sánchez's amnesty deal The amnesty deal is almost...

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Comment: Vox and the "spontaneous" protests against Sánchez's amnesty deal

On Friday night, there was a “spontaneous” demonstration outside Socialist Party HQ in Madrid,...

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Comment: a sudden constitutional crisis in Spain appears to be afoot...

At other moments in Spanish history, perhaps 100 years ago, perhaps 150 years ago, this might...

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Comment: Princess Leonor vs. Puigdemont

Spain became a constitutional monarchy with the 1978 Constitution, after the death of Franco and...

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Comment: the PSOE-Sumar deal and the amnesty for Pugidemont

This week, unsurprisingly, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Sumar, the further-left electoral...

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Comment: Pablo Iglesias crowdfunds a trip to Palestine

The former leader of Podemos, and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Pablo Iglesias, has...

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Comment: the Álvaro Prieto case and sensationalist media frenzies in Spain

It must have been a very wretched 24 hours indeed for the parents of Álvaro Prieto. First their...

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Comment: Spanish politics + Israel-Palestine

So once again an international matter, and again the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has futher...

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Comment: the right in Spain needs new frames and a new strategy

So yesterday the right in Spain, although they are trying to frame it again as more neutral and...

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Comment: polarised antagonist forces

I remember chatting to a senator over dinner about ten years ago in Madrid, around the time...

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Comment: language, power, identity, dominance

I rang parliament a little earlier this morning to check. Did the expensive new multilingual...

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