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.
"Will you nanny, cleaner or builder have to leave the UK?" Reminds me of what @nialloconghaile.bsky.social said about UK often thinking Europeans only exist "to serve the drinks". FYI @vramosbis.bsky.social
Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"Will you nanny, cleaner or builder have to leave the UK?" Reminds me of what @nialloconghaile.bsky.social said about UK often thinking Europeans only exist "to serve the drinks". FYI @vramosbis.bsky.social
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US administrations have always played a double game. Exhorting Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense... but always making sure Europe stayed sufficiently divided not to become a unified rival. Trump has blown up this game, presenting us with a unique opportunity.
Not only bringing in some much-needed (and well-supported) optimism, but also lots of interesting aspects on how #Trump might yet get a place in history, as the guy who managed to unite quite the range of Europeans...
If you think that Europe is doomed, you’re not paying attention.
Wrote a recap of the latest developments and call me a hopeless Europtimist but I think Europe+ (including Canada) isn’t doing too bad in terms of offering Ukraine an actual perspective for the future. With or without the US.
Wrote a recap of the latest developments and call me a hopeless Europtimist but I think Europe+ (including Canada) isn’t doing too bad in terms of offering Ukraine an actual perspective for the future. With or without the US.
February 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
US administrations have always played a double game. Exhorting Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense... but always making sure Europe stayed sufficiently divided not to become a unified rival. Trump has blown up this game, presenting us with a unique opportunity.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
USA pekas ut som del av hotbild i Danmark
För första gången pekas USA ut som en del av hotbilden mot Danmark.
www.svd.se
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
Very interesting because there is evidence humans could make fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought: www.reuters.com/science/olde...
Oldest evidence of human fire-making discovered at site in England
Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealin...
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Very interesting because there is evidence humans could make fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought: www.reuters.com/science/olde...
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This video is from 2016.
Dont believe when Americans tell you they didn't knew what to expect
Dont believe when Americans tell you they didn't knew what to expect
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This video is from 2016.
Dont believe when Americans tell you they didn't knew what to expect
Dont believe when Americans tell you they didn't knew what to expect
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"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
QEPD/RIP #JohnLennon
8 de diciembre de 1980. Muere un Beatle, nace una leyenda.
#JohnLennon
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#JohnLennon
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Working Class Hero - Remastered 2010
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December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
QEPD/RIP #JohnLennon
Así se habla: elpais.com/internaciona...
El presidente del Consejo Europeo responde a la estrategia de Trump de impulsar a los ultras: “La amenaza de interferencia política es inaceptable”
“Ahora está claro. Los discursos de Vance en Múnich y los tuits de Trump se han convertido en la doctrina de EE UU. Y debemos actuar de manera acorde”, asegura Costa sobre el documento de seguridad na...
elpais.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Así se habla: elpais.com/internaciona...
Europeans understand that the USA have changed side. The US are now on the anti democratic NeW Axis of post-Enlightenment promoters of injustice, destructivness, and war. The Festung Europa has to man her crenellations.
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
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spotted on Facebook - brilliant
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
spotted on Facebook - brilliant
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
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I love this one. Photo by British ambulance driver Alec Wainman of two British International Brigaders (names?) having a bit of deserved rest+recreation at Benicàssim away fron the hell of Jarama and the front, May 1937. Wainman took some brilliant photos.
Colourised expertly by @julius.backman
Colourised expertly by @julius.backman
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I love this one. Photo by British ambulance driver Alec Wainman of two British International Brigaders (names?) having a bit of deserved rest+recreation at Benicàssim away fron the hell of Jarama and the front, May 1937. Wainman took some brilliant photos.
Colourised expertly by @julius.backman
Colourised expertly by @julius.backman
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Liverpool paid tribute to Diogo Jota on what would have been his 29th birthday ❤️🫶❤️
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Liverpool paid tribute to Diogo Jota on what would have been his 29th birthday ❤️🫶❤️
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Foodbanks were meant for emergencies.
Food parcels help, but they don’t address poverty.
@nickgardham.bsky.social explains why charity normalises deprivation.
Food parcels help, but they don’t address poverty.
@nickgardham.bsky.social explains why charity normalises deprivation.
Normalising deprivation – when charity is the default response to poverty
The rise of foodbanks shows how charity has filled the gaps of a failing system and now risks normalising hardship
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Foodbanks were meant for emergencies.
Food parcels help, but they don’t address poverty.
@nickgardham.bsky.social explains why charity normalises deprivation.
Food parcels help, but they don’t address poverty.
@nickgardham.bsky.social explains why charity normalises deprivation.
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Left-wing UK politicians protest the country is "in hock" to bond markets, which is understandable but worth noting financing costs are much lower for eurozone members. Another missed opportunity.
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
Breakingviews - Safety-first budget revives UK’s 1974 question
Former Prime Minister Edward Heath famously asked voters whether his government or labour unions ruled Britain. Left-wing politicians now pose the same query about bond markets. Chancellor Rachel Reev...
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Left-wing UK politicians protest the country is "in hock" to bond markets, which is understandable but worth noting financing costs are much lower for eurozone members. Another missed opportunity.
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
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“Okay, I know what vinyl is, and a record player – but what’s a shop?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“Okay, I know what vinyl is, and a record player – but what’s a shop?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
RIP Tom Stoppard. It was a joy and privilege to see his plays over the years and they will live on.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/tom...
www.reuters.com/world/uk/tom...
Tom Stoppard leaves 'majestic body' of intellectual work
Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's best-known playwrights, has died at the age of 88. Below are some tributes and reactions.
www.reuters.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard. It was a joy and privilege to see his plays over the years and they will live on.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/tom...
www.reuters.com/world/uk/tom...