Haven Tenerife
@janetanscombe.bsky.social
Doctor of ancient history, retired university lecturer living in the foothills of Teide among birds, trees, peace, and books. "Leftie elitist". Welsh-Irish. European. MBE.
We know a young doctor with short-term hospital contracts in Spain who lives in a camper van for want of somewhere affordable to live. Some Guardia Civil do the same here. Other people work in tourism where they're expected to smile at the tourists who've made them homeless.
Unsustainable hell.
Unsustainable hell.
La falta de #vivienda obliga a (mal)vivir en coches o furgones a cientos de trabajadores canarios
https://www.canarias7.es/economia/falta-casa-obliga-malvivir-coches-furgones-cientos-20260125073000-nt.html
#Canarias
https://www.canarias7.es/economia/falta-casa-obliga-malvivir-coches-furgones-cientos-20260125073000-nt.html
#Canarias
La falta de casa obliga a (mal)vivir en coches o furgones a cientos de trabajadores canarios | Canarias7
Los disparados precios de la vivienda obligan a buscar alternativas de alojamiento para poder llegar a final de mes
www.canarias7.es
January 26, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We know a young doctor with short-term hospital contracts in Spain who lives in a camper van for want of somewhere affordable to live. Some Guardia Civil do the same here. Other people work in tourism where they're expected to smile at the tourists who've made them homeless.
Unsustainable hell.
Unsustainable hell.
Just signed this. We don't get these in Spain either and a recent bout from a random meeting with an infected child left me with a bad head cold for a fortnight and severely awful eye problems for six weeks. It's serious, this damn thing 🤬
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social We want to raise awareness about the limited availability of RSV vaccine in NHS Wales. Our disabled daughter should have been vaccinated but it’s only given to the elderly, and now she’s in Intensive Care in Cardiff with RSV. Can you help us please? c.org/74sRY4VsTS
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January 26, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Just signed this. We don't get these in Spain either and a recent bout from a random meeting with an infected child left me with a bad head cold for a fortnight and severely awful eye problems for six weeks. It's serious, this damn thing 🤬
What an opportunity for football really coming home 🌍⚽🏟️🏆🏡❤️
I've long been an advocate of Uefa leaving Fifa until it gets its act together. Here's the chance.
Organise a Euros this summer and invite nations from around the world who've qualified for the World Cup
Host it is France-England-Germany (or Italy-Spain-Portugal) and go!
Organise a Euros this summer and invite nations from around the world who've qualified for the World Cup
Host it is France-England-Germany (or Italy-Spain-Portugal) and go!
German FA official wants 2026 World Cup boycott talks
A German football association official believes it is time to consider a boycott of the 2026 World Cup in the wake of United States President Donald Trump's actions.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:38 AM
What an opportunity for football really coming home 🌍⚽🏟️🏆🏡❤️
"Those days are gone" is a line in Elkie Brook's song "No More the Fool". To be the fool no more, read this ... please do read this. 👇
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
"Those days are gone" is a line in Elkie Brook's song "No More the Fool". To be the fool no more, read this ... please do read this. 👇
Every single item a horror story unravelling in real time in real life. A museum piece to stand alongside reports by Christopher Isherwood and Anne Frank.
Three clear undeniable examples of atrocities carried out by Nazi regimes. Only one of them from today, once a friend and ally, but no longer
Three clear undeniable examples of atrocities carried out by Nazi regimes. Only one of them from today, once a friend and ally, but no longer
Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
January 23, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Every single item a horror story unravelling in real time in real life. A museum piece to stand alongside reports by Christopher Isherwood and Anne Frank.
Three clear undeniable examples of atrocities carried out by Nazi regimes. Only one of them from today, once a friend and ally, but no longer
Three clear undeniable examples of atrocities carried out by Nazi regimes. Only one of them from today, once a friend and ally, but no longer
... or the foothills of Teide, 1km up from the populace, off the coast of Africa, in the Atlantic, on an active volcano ...
perfect removal from this insanity.
perfect removal from this insanity.
It’s the perfect day to find a secluded cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
... or the foothills of Teide, 1km up from the populace, off the coast of Africa, in the Atlantic, on an active volcano ...
perfect removal from this insanity.
perfect removal from this insanity.
Very strong from the paper of record in Germany.
"The Union can defend itself from attack from ouside, but not from within. Europe must make itself independent - more rapidly and fundamentally than it expected."
"The Union can defend itself from attack from ouside, but not from within. Europe must make itself independent - more rapidly and fundamentally than it expected."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Very strong from the paper of record in Germany.
"The Union can defend itself from attack from ouside, but not from within. Europe must make itself independent - more rapidly and fundamentally than it expected."
"The Union can defend itself from attack from ouside, but not from within. Europe must make itself independent - more rapidly and fundamentally than it expected."
Yes, it is incredibly brave. But I fear my first and instinctive reaction is a sarcastic "thank god it's only Israelis who do this" ...
The problem is the use of sexual violence, overwhelmingly by men to other humans, as a weapon of war.
The problem, once again, is men.
The problem is the use of sexual violence, overwhelmingly by men to other humans, as a weapon of war.
The problem, once again, is men.
Incredibly brave Palestinian former prisoners speaking out about systematic use of rape as torture in Israeli jails: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail
Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Yes, it is incredibly brave. But I fear my first and instinctive reaction is a sarcastic "thank god it's only Israelis who do this" ...
The problem is the use of sexual violence, overwhelmingly by men to other humans, as a weapon of war.
The problem, once again, is men.
The problem is the use of sexual violence, overwhelmingly by men to other humans, as a weapon of war.
The problem, once again, is men.
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Some residents are fighting the plague of illegal holiday rentals. El Médano locals say the majority of VVs might be registered and have the official plaque but they don't comply with any other legal requirement and so are illegal. Now you can check.
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2026/01/el-m...
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2026/01/el-m...
Vecinos de El Médano denuncian: "La mayoría de las viviendas vacacionales no son legales, con o sin cartel"
Una iniciativa vecinal, apoyada por comercios, incluye carteles con QR para informar de irregularidades en estas viviendas
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Some residents are fighting the plague of illegal holiday rentals. El Médano locals say the majority of VVs might be registered and have the official plaque but they don't comply with any other legal requirement and so are illegal. Now you can check.
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2026/01/el-m...
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2026/01/el-m...
We need a bigger water ...
Mass agriculture, eg olives in Spain, uses so much irrigation there's just not enough, for it or anyone else. And I read of data centres planned in the US that will use so much water that no-one for miles could flush a loo.
We are living way beyond our means, and how.
Mass agriculture, eg olives in Spain, uses so much irrigation there's just not enough, for it or anyone else. And I read of data centres planned in the US that will use so much water that no-one for miles could flush a loo.
We are living way beyond our means, and how.
La superficie de olivares en regadío ya supera en España las 900.000 has, y sigue creciendo. Es posible que este año se supere el millón de hectáreas. Ello conlleva la destrucción de espacios ricos en biodiversidad, y un incremento insostenible del consumo agua. Tremendo.
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
We need a bigger water ...
Mass agriculture, eg olives in Spain, uses so much irrigation there's just not enough, for it or anyone else. And I read of data centres planned in the US that will use so much water that no-one for miles could flush a loo.
We are living way beyond our means, and how.
Mass agriculture, eg olives in Spain, uses so much irrigation there's just not enough, for it or anyone else. And I read of data centres planned in the US that will use so much water that no-one for miles could flush a loo.
We are living way beyond our means, and how.
"So clearly a state visit is not enough".
Nothing will ever be enough. It is a bottomless pit.
Whether mobster, psychotic, personality disorder, dementia, ODD/ADHD, whatever ... you can't ever satisfy it.
You walk away from toxic.
Nothing will ever be enough. It is a bottomless pit.
Whether mobster, psychotic, personality disorder, dementia, ODD/ADHD, whatever ... you can't ever satisfy it.
You walk away from toxic.
Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC's Matt Chorley that if she were prime minister, Donald Trump would simply not be like this.
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
"So clearly a state visit is not enough".
Nothing will ever be enough. It is a bottomless pit.
Whether mobster, psychotic, personality disorder, dementia, ODD/ADHD, whatever ... you can't ever satisfy it.
You walk away from toxic.
Nothing will ever be enough. It is a bottomless pit.
Whether mobster, psychotic, personality disorder, dementia, ODD/ADHD, whatever ... you can't ever satisfy it.
You walk away from toxic.
Gosh, I like this.
Things realigning fast.
Macron: “We need more Chinese direct investment in Europe in some key sectors.”
Macron: “We need more Chinese direct investment in Europe in some key sectors.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Gosh, I like this.
A 70yo male tourist has drowned this lunchtime at Playa del Duque ... emergency services say cause of death was cardiac arrest, a known and frequent cause of drowning in the sea when told to stay the hell away from it.
Official link with details in first reply, but I posted 👇just 2 days ago
Official link with details in first reply, but I posted 👇just 2 days ago
I don't understand or expect to understand those who ignore safety warnings from reputable and official sources. They don't it for fun! Is it just "tourist brain" or an arrogance of being somewhere you don't have to stay? In which case why go? I don't get it. 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
A 70yo male tourist has drowned this lunchtime at Playa del Duque ... emergency services say cause of death was cardiac arrest, a known and frequent cause of drowning in the sea when told to stay the hell away from it.
Official link with details in first reply, but I posted 👇just 2 days ago
Official link with details in first reply, but I posted 👇just 2 days ago
Yes, a joke ... but when German satirists see a Hitler, everyone else needs to damn well listen when they call it out.
January 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Yes, a joke ... but when German satirists see a Hitler, everyone else needs to damn well listen when they call it out.
Do watch this, and hear the explicitly labelled "obliviousness" ... of the public living lives, taking flights, all around these "dark" planes.
What did the Germans do? Nothing. Why? Same reason as the Americans. They didn't know, and what they knew they could explain away.
Hell on earth.
What did the Germans do? Nothing. Why? Same reason as the Americans. They didn't know, and what they knew they could explain away.
Hell on earth.
At Minneapolis airport, @maitlis.bsky.social watches on as shackled ICE deportees board an aircraft.
"It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed."
"The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."
"It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed."
"The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."
January 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Do watch this, and hear the explicitly labelled "obliviousness" ... of the public living lives, taking flights, all around these "dark" planes.
What did the Germans do? Nothing. Why? Same reason as the Americans. They didn't know, and what they knew they could explain away.
Hell on earth.
What did the Germans do? Nothing. Why? Same reason as the Americans. They didn't know, and what they knew they could explain away.
Hell on earth.
In the Hall of the Mountain King ...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:33 AM
In the Hall of the Mountain King ...
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Why do they do this? It really is "at it again". They never stop. One side says blah, other side says blahdyblah ...
When there is a factual real world situation behind each claim, it really is not difficult to understand that the job is to reveal that reality and show which if either reflects it.
When there is a factual real world situation behind each claim, it really is not difficult to understand that the job is to reveal that reality and show which if either reflects it.
BBC News is at it again. While mangling English grammar they report that maybe the Norwegian government choose Nobel Laureates or maybe they don't. "If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry...your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true" Jonathan Foster
January 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Why do they do this? It really is "at it again". They never stop. One side says blah, other side says blahdyblah ...
When there is a factual real world situation behind each claim, it really is not difficult to understand that the job is to reveal that reality and show which if either reflects it.
When there is a factual real world situation behind each claim, it really is not difficult to understand that the job is to reveal that reality and show which if either reflects it.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social is right, you won't do anything better than watching this today.
youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U
youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U
January 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
@davidallengreen.bsky.social is right, you won't do anything better than watching this today.
youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U
youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U
I'd take a pop at Oppositional Defiant Disorder with comorbid ADHD.
"Why are we running around talking to former diplomats? We should be talking to psychotherapists," says Emily Maitlis.
Does Donald Trump's "batshit" letter to Norway's PM prove invading Greenland would be revenge for not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/we-s...
Does Donald Trump's "batshit" letter to Norway's PM prove invading Greenland would be revenge for not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/we-s...
‘We should be speaking to psychotherapists about what’s going on with Donald Trump’ | The News Agents
Donald Trump has declared his focus is no longer on peace, but what he wants for America, in an angry, rambling letter about not winning a Nobel Peace Prize. Keir Starmer’s calling for ‘calm…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I'd take a pop at Oppositional Defiant Disorder with comorbid ADHD.
The Eurovisionization of the world, ruined by thugs at all points.
People laughed when we said we were moving to Tenerife in 2004. They thought we wanted to escape the weather and live in touristland. Wrong on both counts.
A km up a distant volcano now feels as safe as we always hoped it would. 🌋
People laughed when we said we were moving to Tenerife in 2004. They thought we wanted to escape the weather and live in touristland. Wrong on both counts.
A km up a distant volcano now feels as safe as we always hoped it would. 🌋
Danish officials will not attend Davos as tensions with the US escalate, Bloomberg reports.
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The Eurovisionization of the world, ruined by thugs at all points.
People laughed when we said we were moving to Tenerife in 2004. They thought we wanted to escape the weather and live in touristland. Wrong on both counts.
A km up a distant volcano now feels as safe as we always hoped it would. 🌋
People laughed when we said we were moving to Tenerife in 2004. They thought we wanted to escape the weather and live in touristland. Wrong on both counts.
A km up a distant volcano now feels as safe as we always hoped it would. 🌋
Genius! 👶👊🤡😂
Years ago when I was still on twitter, I had that plugin that changed Trumps tweet's font so they looked like a 5 years old scribbled them with crayon.
We need this now, but to work in all of the internet.
We need this now, but to work in all of the internet.
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Genius! 👶👊🤡😂
Nationalist federalism or union of European states, ie EU ... either way, this is your regular reminder of the modernity and present short-lived experience of the "nation state". It was never going to survive long term. Only question ever was what replaced them.
Excellent article from Janan Ganesh. The logic - that the European right and far right will embrace a federal European state - is coherent and hard to dispute.
Essentially, nationalists are starting to realise that European states are simply too small to protect, never mind project, identity
A 🧵
Essentially, nationalists are starting to realise that European states are simply too small to protect, never mind project, identity
A 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Nationalist federalism or union of European states, ie EU ... either way, this is your regular reminder of the modernity and present short-lived experience of the "nation state". It was never going to survive long term. Only question ever was what replaced them.
The view from Spain. We need total de-Americanization, and bloody fast.
Amen. 🙏
From the article, translation in alt text.
Amen. 🙏
From the article, translation in alt text.
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM
The view from Spain. We need total de-Americanization, and bloody fast.
Amen. 🙏
From the article, translation in alt text.
Amen. 🙏
From the article, translation in alt text.
They always talk sustainability and fairness to locals, to much mockery, but for the first time they're not going to the main tourism fair to appeal to outsiders. Tenerife's focus will be Spaniards, the domestic market.
A very clear change of focus.
www.diariodetenerife.info/tenerife-acu...
A very clear change of focus.
www.diariodetenerife.info/tenerife-acu...
Tenerife acude a Fitur con el objetivo de consolidar su liderazgo turístico, impulsar la sostenibilidad y promover un modelo más equilibrado y competitivo - Diario de Tenerife
La isla recibe el 45% del turismo peninsular que llega a Canarias, siendo el principal destino canario del mercado peninsular
www.diariodetenerife.info
January 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
They always talk sustainability and fairness to locals, to much mockery, but for the first time they're not going to the main tourism fair to appeal to outsiders. Tenerife's focus will be Spaniards, the domestic market.
A very clear change of focus.
www.diariodetenerife.info/tenerife-acu...
A very clear change of focus.
www.diariodetenerife.info/tenerife-acu...