JWexTheSpa
@jwsidders.bsky.social
South West England via the Midlands but made in NW5.
Spurs, Spain and social democracy. I like a hike.
Spurs, Spain and social democracy. I like a hike.
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JWexTheSpa
@jwsidders.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Apologies to all those I follow and missed - I couldn’t work out how to do it properly. Please add names and links. The key here is it’s people who post mostly in English - not Spanish - about Spain and Spain-related stuff.
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One of the stories of British politics over last 15 years has been Conservatives and Labour valuing narrower and narrower ideological coherence over their historic, broad coalitions and then being astonished that their vote shares keep falling.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM
One of the stories of British politics over last 15 years has been Conservatives and Labour valuing narrower and narrower ideological coherence over their historic, broad coalitions and then being astonished that their vote shares keep falling.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where do things stand with the investigation of the attempted Trump assassination?
Trump continues to lie and incite violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud ... she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Where do things stand with the investigation of the attempted Trump assassination?
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Indeed. It is right to cry ‘wolf’ at the sight of a real wolf.
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Indeed. It is right to cry ‘wolf’ at the sight of a real wolf.
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Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
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My one point of sympathy with the Jenrickites is that it is genuinely *mad* how so much of the commentary around Badenoch ignores that she took over a party polling in the high 20s, winning council by-elections, and has turned it into a party polling in the high teens.
"Every day I have got more right wing!" Is a really fun companion to "going from 30% to 15% in the polls"
January 28, 2026 at 12:14 PM
My one point of sympathy with the Jenrickites is that it is genuinely *mad* how so much of the commentary around Badenoch ignores that she took over a party polling in the high 20s, winning council by-elections, and has turned it into a party polling in the high teens.
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Pretty classic of the genre here from
Kemi Badenoch
How it started How it’s going
Kemi Badenoch
How it started How it’s going
January 28, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Pretty classic of the genre here from
Kemi Badenoch
How it started How it’s going
Kemi Badenoch
How it started How it’s going
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Hope Montie goes canvassing for him
January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Hope Montie goes canvassing for him
Things like this make it very hard for me to buy into pious narratives about "the European project". It may exist in the minds of some fantasists but in the real world national interest always comes first.
This is not confirmed, but would not be the first time France has put national interests above Ukraine.
The Telegraph says Paris blocked EU cash being used to purchase Storm Shadow missiles from the UK, even though they are available now and France cannot supply.
The Telegraph says Paris blocked EU cash being used to purchase Storm Shadow missiles from the UK, even though they are available now and France cannot supply.
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Things like this make it very hard for me to buy into pious narratives about "the European project". It may exist in the minds of some fantasists but in the real world national interest always comes first.
This is a gloriously insane thing to say.
Badenoch: “My Conservative party has moved to the right every day since I became leader.”
This is a genuine trailed quote from her speech.
Cue another distant cheer from Lib Dem HQ.
This is a genuine trailed quote from her speech.
Cue another distant cheer from Lib Dem HQ.
January 28, 2026 at 11:30 AM
This is a gloriously insane thing to say.
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Ignoring the net zero stuff, this is basically what every tory leader has promised since, what, 2010? and, well, look where we are now as country and look where *they* are as a party.
(Add in the £47 billion of spending cuts already promised and I can't see what could go wrong here).
(Add in the £47 billion of spending cuts already promised and I can't see what could go wrong here).
Badenoch is on now, and says: what would a Tory govt under her do? She says:
• Cut taxes
• End "welfare addiction"
• Curb immigration
• Anti-net zero
The message is, basically: we're Reform, but we've done our homework.
The message is, also: centrists are not welcome.
• Cut taxes
• End "welfare addiction"
• Curb immigration
• Anti-net zero
The message is, basically: we're Reform, but we've done our homework.
The message is, also: centrists are not welcome.
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Ignoring the net zero stuff, this is basically what every tory leader has promised since, what, 2010? and, well, look where we are now as country and look where *they* are as a party.
(Add in the £47 billion of spending cuts already promised and I can't see what could go wrong here).
(Add in the £47 billion of spending cuts already promised and I can't see what could go wrong here).
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Failing to pursue closer integration with the EU creates tension with the Government’s growth ambitions.
The Brexit impact on GDP per person may be bigger than feared; the impact on GDP per person may well sit above 4 per cent already.
Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb
The Brexit impact on GDP per person may be bigger than feared; the impact on GDP per person may well sit above 4 per cent already.
Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb
January 28, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Failing to pursue closer integration with the EU creates tension with the Government’s growth ambitions.
The Brexit impact on GDP per person may be bigger than feared; the impact on GDP per person may well sit above 4 per cent already.
Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb
The Brexit impact on GDP per person may be bigger than feared; the impact on GDP per person may well sit above 4 per cent already.
Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb
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Happy 60th birthday to Sha-La-La-La-Lee by Small Faces, released as a single on this day in 1966. Here's a thrilling live performance from back then. What a band!
youtu.be/JsuKmqQyYR4
youtu.be/JsuKmqQyYR4
The Small Faces - Sha La La La Lee (1966)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Happy 60th birthday to Sha-La-La-La-Lee by Small Faces, released as a single on this day in 1966. Here's a thrilling live performance from back then. What a band!
youtu.be/JsuKmqQyYR4
youtu.be/JsuKmqQyYR4
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📰 "Una sentencia inquietante”: 150 juristas firman un manifiesto contra la condena al ex fiscal general, según @eldiario.es @albertopozasamador.bsky.social
➡️ “En un proceso penal no bastan las sospechas ni las imaginaciones”, afirman Perfecto Andrés y otr@s
www.eldiario.es/politica/sen...
➡️ “En un proceso penal no bastan las sospechas ni las imaginaciones”, afirman Perfecto Andrés y otr@s
www.eldiario.es/politica/sen...
"Una sentencia inquietante": 150 juristas firman un manifiesto contra la condena del Supremo al ex fiscal general
El documento firmado por exmagistrados del tribunal como Perfecto Andrés, Joaquín Giménez, Alberto Jorge o José Antonio Martín Pallín, así abogados, catedráticos o fiscales critica la resolución que i...
www.eldiario.es
January 28, 2026 at 8:13 AM
📰 "Una sentencia inquietante”: 150 juristas firman un manifiesto contra la condena al ex fiscal general, según @eldiario.es @albertopozasamador.bsky.social
➡️ “En un proceso penal no bastan las sospechas ni las imaginaciones”, afirman Perfecto Andrés y otr@s
www.eldiario.es/politica/sen...
➡️ “En un proceso penal no bastan las sospechas ni las imaginaciones”, afirman Perfecto Andrés y otr@s
www.eldiario.es/politica/sen...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Afraid of the 15 minute city? You're nuts! Take a look at what it really is here in Spain. valenciaproperty.substack.com/p/the-15-min... This is a service for the hard of thinking.
The 15 Minute City and Spain
And how it is totally joyous
valenciaproperty.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Afraid of the 15 minute city? You're nuts! Take a look at what it really is here in Spain. valenciaproperty.substack.com/p/the-15-min... This is a service for the hard of thinking.
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Matt Goodwin's lies about his background have hopelessly confused Google AI 😉
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Matt Goodwin's lies about his background have hopelessly confused Google AI 😉
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Kemi is the ur-British politician. Super weird, out of touch, but somehow the most cooked in ultra online politics focused on an alternative timeline where the Tories weren’t the main ruling party for most of her life.
Kemi Badenoch has written an op-ed on China in which, among other things “you sure about that chief?” claims she argues that if not for Labour’s tax rises we would not be dependent on “cheap goods” from China.
Starmer is kowtowing to China
The Prime Minister gave away his leverage in talks with Beijing before even boarding the plane
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Kemi is the ur-British politician. Super weird, out of touch, but somehow the most cooked in ultra online politics focused on an alternative timeline where the Tories weren’t the main ruling party for most of her life.
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Teach Labour a lesson. Enable concentration camps, torture and human trafficking.
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 28, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Teach Labour a lesson. Enable concentration camps, torture and human trafficking.
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El Greco"a dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
January 28, 2026 at 6:24 AM
El Greco"a dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
It is insane this woman was ever a Labour MP.
The answer is “no”.
Every pound spent on bombs & tanks is money stolen from schools & hospitals.
Anti-imperialism isn’t vibes, it’s a commitment to confronting empire.
If you recognise NATO as an imperialist war machine we should leave immediately, join Your Party: in.yourparty.uk/users/sign_up
Every pound spent on bombs & tanks is money stolen from schools & hospitals.
Anti-imperialism isn’t vibes, it’s a commitment to confronting empire.
If you recognise NATO as an imperialist war machine we should leave immediately, join Your Party: in.yourparty.uk/users/sign_up
January 28, 2026 at 6:51 AM
It is insane this woman was ever a Labour MP.
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If Labour has a chance in Gorton, it not only has to make a strong positive case for the government as best it can but it has to - finally - make the connection between Reform and Trump starkly apparent. It should stop being afraid of pissing off Trump.
'we're the British MAGA' probably an increasingly bad look for Reform in a by-election as Brits increasingly associate that with 'the guys who shoot nurses'.
Half of Britons say they are following news of recent shootings by ICE agents in the United States at least fairly closely
Very closely: 15%
Fairly closely: 35%
Not very closely: 23%
Aware, but not following: 17%
Not aware: 10%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Very closely: 15%
Fairly closely: 35%
Not very closely: 23%
Aware, but not following: 17%
Not aware: 10%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
If Labour has a chance in Gorton, it not only has to make a strong positive case for the government as best it can but it has to - finally - make the connection between Reform and Trump starkly apparent. It should stop being afraid of pissing off Trump.
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Labour will organise against Reform
Greens will organise against Labour
Greens will organise against Labour
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Labour will organise against Reform
Greens will organise against Labour
Greens will organise against Labour
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The radical right worldview is one in which terrible incidents - murders, rapes - especially by immigrants - are the norm and the cause of our woes. But the vast majority of people, of all backgrounds, are nice, conflict averse, and want to get on.
January 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The radical right worldview is one in which terrible incidents - murders, rapes - especially by immigrants - are the norm and the cause of our woes. But the vast majority of people, of all backgrounds, are nice, conflict averse, and want to get on.
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It does seem slightly problematic for the British Polling Council that a pollster who over-estimated Reform by 5 points in their final poll at the 2024 general election is standing for the party within two years.
January 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
It does seem slightly problematic for the British Polling Council that a pollster who over-estimated Reform by 5 points in their final poll at the 2024 general election is standing for the party within two years.