Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲
@madridcorro.bsky.social
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.
Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.
Menuda pieza.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Menuda pieza.
So he's OK with journalists being kidnapped, murdered and dismembered?
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So he's OK with journalists being kidnapped, murdered and dismembered?
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Excellent article in The Observer by journalist and author Dan Hancox about Spain's Historical Memory movement and our Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Excellent article in The Observer by journalist and author Dan Hancox about Spain's Historical Memory movement and our Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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The best that can be said about Starmer is that he is worthy but dull. In truth he is turning out to be dull without being worthy. His team need the bravery to target the very richest in the budget & to help people invest to cut their energy bills and CO2.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
How the Chancellor can raise taxes without hurting working people - Andy Brown
Contrary to much expert opinion there are actually some relatively painless ways for the Chancellor to raise money. Unfortunately many of them have professional lobbying groups agitating against them.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The best that can be said about Starmer is that he is worthy but dull. In truth he is turning out to be dull without being worthy. His team need the bravery to target the very richest in the budget & to help people invest to cut their energy bills and CO2.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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#YaphetKotto photographed with co-stars Roger Moore, Tommy Lane, Jane Seymour and Arnold Williams on location at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, on the set of the eighth #JamesBond film "LIVE AND LET DIE" (1973) dir. Guy Hamilton
🎞 Eon Productions
🎞 Eon Productions
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#YaphetKotto photographed with co-stars Roger Moore, Tommy Lane, Jane Seymour and Arnold Williams on location at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, on the set of the eighth #JamesBond film "LIVE AND LET DIE" (1973) dir. Guy Hamilton
🎞 Eon Productions
🎞 Eon Productions
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A reminder that clean energy doesn’t raise costs, it lowers them. Protecting our planet and our economy go hand in hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A reminder that clean energy doesn’t raise costs, it lowers them. Protecting our planet and our economy go hand in hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
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On this day, 45 years ago, #Visage released their debut album "Visage" including their breakout hit "Fade To Grey".
Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".
Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
On this day, 45 years ago, #Visage released their debut album "Visage" including their breakout hit "Fade To Grey".
Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".
Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".
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November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
Visto #Popel y suscribo que dicho por filmaffinity: "Este largometraje documental no solo es un tributo a los héroes anónimos, sino una llamada a preservar la memoria de quienes nunca debieron ser olvidados".
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Visto #Popel y suscribo que dicho por filmaffinity: "Este largometraje documental no solo es un tributo a los héroes anónimos, sino una llamada a preservar la memoria de quienes nunca debieron ser olvidados".
"Yes, our BBC is highly imperfect. Yes, it sometimes fails its own standards. But that’s precisely the point – it has standards, unlike the billionaire-funded alternatives."
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy"
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"Yes, our BBC is highly imperfect. Yes, it sometimes fails its own standards. But that’s precisely the point – it has standards, unlike the billionaire-funded alternatives."
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“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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This is a key point that UK (and a lot of Joiners) don't get. They treat the EU like a sovereign country open to deals and big concessions. They do not appreciate it is an entity of laws and rules partly expressed via carefully constructed MS agreements. Hence the "UK is a special case" fallacy.
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is a key point that UK (and a lot of Joiners) don't get. They treat the EU like a sovereign country open to deals and big concessions. They do not appreciate it is an entity of laws and rules partly expressed via carefully constructed MS agreements. Hence the "UK is a special case" fallacy.
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10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague.
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague.
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
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What if computer code is nonbinary. What if computer code gender is a spectrum
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What if computer code is nonbinary. What if computer code gender is a spectrum
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The Wall stood for 28 years,
it fell OTD 36 years ago.
it fell OTD 36 years ago.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Wall stood for 28 years,
it fell OTD 36 years ago.
it fell OTD 36 years ago.
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Woodlice on rusty iron make a quite Martian scene
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Woodlice on rusty iron make a quite Martian scene
Hey, corned beef has long been expensive.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Hey, corned beef has long been expensive.
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Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
Spain breaks world records in health innovation
Spain leads the world in organ donation and medical breakthroughs, earning Guinness World Records for health innovation and compassion.
euroweeklynews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.