A very thoughtful, well-researched and argued piece. Worth a careful read

I wonder if considering the 1st Amendment issues of Trump suing the BBC might be beyond the point. Trump has sued many for libel and got huge payouts out of it despite not having a ground to stand on. The 1st Amendment is not a great protection if the man suing you has unfettered power

🇪🇸Latest La Comunidad piece in inboxes 📥 👋🏻94% of provincial capitals in Spain have seen a decrease in the number of Spaniards living in their centres over the past decade. I look at why and ask: What’s a city without citizens? Enjoy, share, gracias!

🗽 Zohran Mamdani guanya les eleccions a la alcaldia de Nueva York. Un exemple de polític de nova generació, més obert al canvi, més proper a un socialista europeu que al centrisme esgotat de la vella guàrdia. Per @4freedoms.es.

I sincerely believe this is fundamentally important: allanpaterson.substack.com/p/the-energy...

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Miles de bebés evitaron el hospital desde 2023. ¿Por qué no lo sabías? 👇 La bronquiolitis mandaba al hospital al 2% de los recién nacidos. Ya no. España los inmunizó con un anticuerpo y mirad: ¡sus ingresos cayeron un 75%!

The extent to which meanness and stupid trolling has become an integral part of "alt-right" politics never ceased to amaze me. A strong "we have no ideas on how to make your lives better but we promise to annoy the people you dislike" vibe

A very interesting article (as always) by Tom Calver. It does leave me wondering if there's any research on Poles who moved to the UK in the 2000s and have since moved back. What are their occupations, ages, family status? How much are they now contributing to the Polish economy?

Will be worth a listen, at a time when Conservative Party politicians are going beyond Enoch Powell on a near-daily basis.

🇪🇸La Comunidad Weekend🇪🇸 I wrote about my week in Madrid (as a tourist) through the lens of where the city has been and where it's going. Enjoy, share, gracias! brendyboyle.substack.com/p/whats-next...

Obligatory repost of the best data journalism team in Spain

⚠️ España será el país de la UE que mayor porcentaje de sus ingresos fiscales deberá destinar al pago de pensiones en los próximos años (46% frente al 30% de la media UE). Consecuencia: se sacrificarán otras partidas y/o aumentarán los impuestos. www.elconfidencial.com/economia/202...

It's been a rough two decades for non-pensioner real income growth after housing costs, especially for the poorest households. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Some super interesting research (even if the effects are relatively small)

Impresionante mapa sobre el envejecimiento de la población en España: en los municipios de color marrón oscuro, más del 40% (e incluso >50%) de la población mayor de 15 años es perceptora de una pensión. Autor: @pablogguz_ en su excelente web www.wikibarrio.es

I think this is a very good article that strikes a difficult balance, asking important questions without delving into conspiracies. Interesting times are ahead, without a doubt

Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.

Isak and the fake versus the real www.theguardian.com/football/202...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

NEW: Are migrants more likely to commit crimes than non-migrants? Here’s what the data does and doesn’t show. 1/8 @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...

Spain's economy is booming, but you would never know from the mood on the street. What is going on? Please see this week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog for my thoughts.

Cada ampliación de los permisos de paternidad en España ha disparado su uso. Un avance impresionante. Pero ahora que el gobierno aprueba otra más, nos deberíamos preguntar: ¿no estamos perfeccionando una pieza del sistema mientras descuidamos otras? 👇🧶

Link to read: open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...

Latest piece on Spain’s atrocious wages and the alarming rise of young people applying for public sector jobs - that ain’t gonna drive wages up… Link below

Once my work colleagues and I walked past a London cyclist who looked an awful lot like journalist Jon Snow. We all noticed him and one of my colleagues asked me "isn't that the journalist... whatshisname...". A second later the cyclist starts riding again and shouts "I'm Jon Snow!"

🇪🇸Weekend read with your café con leche. A conversation with James about Spain today: 🌴The tourism gravy train 🏠Airbnb and the housing crisis 🗺️ Under-explored Spain 🤝How to be a responsible visitor ✈️Advice about moving to Spain Link below - enjoy, share, gracias!

If you find talk of bond and forex markets hard to track, this graph does an amazing job illustrating what's going on.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Spain's housing crisis won’t be solved soon, largely because public discourse (like most Spanish speaking countries) focuses on anti-financialization rather than addressing the need to increase housing supply.

Apparently, waste, fraud, and abuse only occurs in counties that voted for Harris. Who knew?

Yes. The point is to normalize abductions by a masked, unidentified, secret police force. Things are moving very fast right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

This analysis from the FT is arguably all you need to know in policy terms for the medium to longer term. Declining birth rates / aging population mean the role of the state is going to fundamentally change.

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Los que se quejan del Falcon de Pedro Sánchez se van a morir cuando vean esto

The subtext of Trump's argument from the start has been that, "hey, I'm an amoral asshole but I'll be the amoral asshole fighting in your corner - fighting and winning." Well, this wasn't your corner, and if he won at all it certainly wasn't for you.