Comment: US-Spain clash on Yemen mission
Spanish politics has taken a fascinating turn towards the international stage since the...
Comment: US-Spain clash on Yemen mission
Spanish politics has taken a fascinating turn towards the international stage since the...
Comment: Abascal's dangerous rhetoric in Argentina
Comment: Abascal's arrogant, disloyal Israel trip Comment: Let's hope no one else gets shot......
Comment: the Podemos-Sumar implosion
I remember seeing the excitment on young Spaniards faces back on the first Monday in June in...
Comment: Abascal's arrogant, disloyal Israel trip
Comment: Sánchez's dramatic Israel trip Vox leader Santiago Abascal has suddenly appeared in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
Comment: the right takes to Spanish streets
Vox and the "spontaneous" protests against Sánchez's amnesty deal The amnesty deal is almost...
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,...
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...
Comment: Princess Leonor vs. Puigdemont
Spain became a constitutional monarchy with the 1978 Constitution, after the death of Franco and...
Comment: the PSOE-Sumar deal and the amnesty for Pugidemont
This week, unsurprisingly, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Sumar, the further-left electoral...
Comment: Pablo Iglesias crowdfunds a trip to Palestine
The former leader of Podemos, and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Pablo Iglesias, has...
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...
Comment: Spanish politics + Israel-Palestine
So once again an international matter, and again the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has futher...
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...
Comment: polarised antagonist forces
I remember chatting to a senator over dinner about ten years ago in Madrid, around the time...
Comment: language, power, identity, dominance
I rang parliament a little earlier this morning to check. Did the expensive new multilingual...