Good news that house prices within Iran's missile range are about to drop.

Pedro Sánchez can lie to you in two languages.

Also, let's be honest. Just like a landmine treaty that gets dumped the second reality hits, the only thing that would happen if #OTAN looked like declaring war would be Spain would leave. Going to die for your landlords freedom is a non starter.

It's not my politics because they are nutjob liberals but it is incredible how the narcassism of small differences is preventing sumar+ podemos from being a viable political party

People wheeling out opinion polls showing Spain's 'support' for NATO are delusional or deceitful . Any opinion poll that includes old people who wouldn't have to fight is worthless, support for NATO /OTAN membership for those who would be sent is non existent.

Also that will be fuel for Vox next time if PP do spend the cap. Spending billions on NATO/ OTAN but can't /won't do anything about the ocean of illegal immigrants actually invading the country via Morocco? Good luck selling that.

Despite the lazy stereotypes, La Razón opinion poll shows Vox far more popular amongst young people and those who actually work for a living than pensioners. Shows why any coalition with PP would be an electoral disaster for Vox.

Childless liberal doesn't want any other Spanish women to have children either.

I can see why people want to slag off Spain on #NATO but let's face facts. Spain's national security is far more impacted by illegal immigration via Morocco than Russia sweeping across Europe. The majority of people who would have to fight in Spain have no support for NATO.

People saying "actually opinion polls show Spain supports #NATO " . No, old people who don't have to fight do. So the compromise is: everyone in Spain on their fat pensions and two homes can go to Ukraine, put their body where their mouth is and lower Spain's pension liability.

We need to be honest, any Spanish government that tried a draft or called up people because of #NATO / #OTAN would only cause civil conflict/war. Those on the Podemos Sumar side don't want to die for landlords and those young people on the right don't want to die for immigrants.

Far from being a rebirth when PP win after #Sanchez, PP and PSOE trading pensioners to each other in elections is hopefully coming to the end of its death spiral. Question is whether Vox can stop being PP /liberal lite and find a program worth supporting.

I guess one way to keep the rent down in my neighborhood is to import lots of illegal African 'children' who will then rob every car in sight.

No a la OTAN is probably one of the few if not the only issue that would unite Podemos/Sumar voters and those young people voting Vox.

A excellent nugget of Madrid history from Javier Cid buried in the middle of El Mundo today.

Spain's 100 billion pound pension hole to cover people who never fought in a war and had the easiest route to home ownership of all time. If a political party believed in reciprocidad , pensions in Spain would be cut in half. #PP and #PSOE are slaves to ancianos

There's a reason it is buried in the middle of the paper because if El Mundo said " Old people, you selfish cu*ts" they would probably lose 75% of subscribers.

Almost a third of what Spain classifies as young (up to 34) are immigrants and two thirds are dependent on parents . You don't need to be in Vox to see Spanish people are being replaced because Spanish politicians are prisoners of landlords and pensioners.

Also when any politician or commentator in Spain says "Oh they don't want kids" 72% want kids. So anyone who says that is more interested in appealing to pensioners who don't want to take moral responsibility for the demographic collapse of Spain and should probably be shot.

Been too long but finally heading back to Ateneo de Madrid for Fundación Cives Presentation of 'Memoria, Escuela y Democracia'