Sam Jones

Trump may yet secure a Ukraine deal – but it threatens to be a disaster for Kyiv Ukraine could be forced into an agreement but plan as it stands seems too bizarre for Zelenskyy to sell to his public

“This time it feels a bit different… Zelenskyy’s solemn bearing on Friday afternoon shows how worried he is about what is being put in front of him,” writes @shaunwalker7.bsky.social, a reporter who knows really well what he’s talking about www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett

"Ignorance is dangerous. It is not surprising that almost one in five young people believe his dictatorship was good for Spain. The only way to change that is to break the silence and teach young Spaniards what Francoism was really about."

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Five years after starting it, my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" is published today by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social (5 Dec in the US). Available in bookshops and whereever you get your books online. hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...
Announcing Zoom presentation soon
Many thanks!

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right? Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right? Many thanks @demiguelch.bsky.social and Almudena Carracedo

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I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable, says the journalist María Ramírez

'The transition to democracy was remarkably smooth … But in seeking to balance justice and reconciliation, Spain leaned heavily towards the latter … And as the years passed, amnesty turned into amnesia'. By @mariaramirez.bsky.social

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Death threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far right Mark Bray has become one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target Antifa

“The authoritarian fascist playbook is well documented and it thrives on crisis and emergency … Figures like this want to squelch opposition resistance and usually will try to come up with a catch-all bogeyman category to do so." Via @ashifakassam.bsky.social

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Looking forward to this, @paulodrinot.bsky.social

‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century

‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
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‘You can learn a lot by losing’: meet Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player Manuel Álvarez Escudero, from Spain, describes how the board game has provided him with a lifetime of fun and friendship

This was a wonderful way to spend Saturday morning.

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‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance. By @ashifakassam.bsky.social

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Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out? Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

Sometimes. But it’s mainly people asking me if I know @sidlowe.bsky.social

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Lawmakers in Peru voted Friday to remove president Dina Boluarte, whose term has been marked by protests and accusations of failing to stem crime.

Boluarte refused to appear before Congress for the overnight hearing

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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned ...

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‘Somerset saved my sanity’: #DonMcCullin spent decades photographing war & carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the #Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and landscapes www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

First deaths in Morocco’s youth-led anti-government protests as police open fire Two killed in city of Lqliâa on fifth day of demonstrations calling for social justice reforms as unrest rises

Two people were killed in the southern Moroccan city of Lqliâa on Wednesday night after security forces opened fire at protesters on the fourth night of youth-led protests calling for better education and healthcare. Local authorities said the shootings were in self-defence.

Los secretos de John le Carré y el error en 'El topo' que cambió su manera de escribir El novelista y ex espía, obsesionado con la precisión en los detalles de sus libros, viajaba y estudiaba con una red de expertos para documentarse, como retrata una nueva exposición de la Biblioteca d...

Fascinante … Los secretos de John le Carré y el error en 'El topo' que cambió su manera de escribir. Por @mariaramirez.bsky.social

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‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’ Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw

"The contest has included levels of on-camera drama that surpass even those of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City."

I covered Fat Bear Week victor "32 Chunk"--a brutal villain from previous seasons who finally found his redemption arc:
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‘Not even animals escape the extreme barbarity’: wildlife caught in Rio’s rampant gun crime From capuchin monkeys to mantled hawks - Instituto Vida Livre has treated a myriad of shot animals in a city blighted by gun crime

‘Not even animals escape the extreme barbarity’: wildlife caught in Rio’s rampant gun crime. By @tomphillips.bsky.social
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Very pleased with the cover (and reviews) for my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" out on 20 November with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Pre-orders, etc here www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...

I was at Gaddafi’s last big speech in Tripoli. It’s a high bar but I think Trump nudged it

Cualquier de los libros de Katherine Rundell. El explorador de Amazonas/The Explorer nos gustó mucho.

Enhorabuena, Eduardo!

Dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was ‘copied from lesser-known artist’ Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources

The curious incident of the dog in the Night Watch: Dog in Rembrandt’s masterpiece was ‘copied from lesser-known artist’. Via @senayboztas.bsky.social
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Narcstromo …

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe

‘Just imagine spending hours, or days, stuck inside one of these things. It is total madness’. By @tomphillips.bsky.social

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Reading in York next Wednesday, where I once worked for the Council. The visit has reminded me of this sign in Museum Gardens which apparently banned cycling while allowing you to injure young and old alike by way of recompense. The good management of municipal facilities is all about give and take.

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang. By @jasonburke2.bsky.social
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

'The supposed “centrists” are ushering fringe politics into the mainstream and normalising the abhorrent'. By Aditya Chakrabortty.
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‘You think rape’s your fault’: Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker on her devastating memoir She had a zest for life that propelled her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind all this lay a shocking story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes,...

Brenda Fricker had a zest for life that took her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind it lay a terrible story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes, Ireland’s grande dame talks to @rorycarroll72.bsky.social

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