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Annie Bennett

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Travel writer. Spain and Wales

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Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic | Eoghan Gilmartin The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin

“The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad”
@eoghangilmartin.bsky.social

07.03.2026 09:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

“They’re very powerful dogs. They can fully take down an elk” #Crufts

06.03.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Villa Marie-Mirande in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, 1912. Full ceramic facade. Self-washing so always looking fabulous.

05.03.2026 20:44 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Fabulous!

04.03.2026 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same here!

04.03.2026 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Picasso the ‘pious atheist’ returns to the cathedral that moved him An exhibition at Burgos Cathedral reveals how the artist was inspired by religious imagery and his lifelong interest in Spain’s ‘primordial mysticism’

A new exhibition at Burgos cathedral explores how Picasso was influenced by religious art.

03.03.2026 19:52 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Mental. I’d like to see them try!

03.03.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Felicidades, happy birthday Jorge!

02.03.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

01.03.2026 06:35 👍 4022 🔁 1071 💬 237 📌 84

Awful news. So sorry Oz.

28.02.2026 20:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meanwhile in the garden 🌱🇬🇧 #cherryblossom #flowers

28.02.2026 07:48 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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¡Granada en pie de guerra! Más de 500 cajetines de viviendas turísticas saboteados .

More than 500 key safes were vandalised in Granada in one day in protest against tourist apartments

27.02.2026 09:16 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A view from Anthony Eyton's studio in Spitalfields, East London. He made a number of paintings of the view seen here; this picture was worked on for five years from 1976 during which time the view inevitably changed as houses were refurbished.

27.02.2026 09:04 👍 104 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

You worked out the logistics, got dressed and ready to go. That sounds like quite enough achievement for one day frankly.

25.02.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds about right to me.

24.02.2026 08:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rock Against Racism celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Beginning to think it's needed more now than in 1976...

23.02.2026 14:05 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Fabulous!

22.02.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I really think you should ask…

21.02.2026 19:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two real achievements to be proud of there Jane.

21.02.2026 19:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really interesting!

21.02.2026 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spanish wine: views from the grapevine An exclusive chat with Rioja-based winemaker Andrew Halliwell.

This week in La Comunidad, @brendanboyle.bsky.social talks to British winemaker @adhalliwell.bsky.social, who lives in the beautiful La Rioja region, about wine trends, the lack of young people in the sector and how wine tourism is affected by patchy transport links.

21.02.2026 08:44 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh just imagining the flavour though…

19.02.2026 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sweaty nonce Andrew looking like a rabbit made of ketamine.

Sweaty nonce Andrew looking like a rabbit made of ketamine.

It's 3am. You're in a minicab. You've been kicked out of a nightclub for necking your whole stash before the bouncers kick the cubicle door in. And you start to feel it.

19.02.2026 20:47 👍 51 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 2
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Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year Xalet del Catllaràs contains elements of architect’s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park Güell and Sagrada Família An elegant modernist building in the mountains north of Barcelona, originally constructed to house engineers establishing a nearby mine, has been confirmed as a work of Antoni Gaudí, Catalonia’s most celebrated and distinctive architect. The Xalet del Catllaràs, about 80 miles from Barcelona in the county of Berguedà, was built in 1905 and commissioned by Eusebi Güell, Gaudí’s lifelong patron. Güell was the owner of a cement company with mines in the region and he needed somewhere to house the engineers, many of them British, who would help extract the coal for his factories. Continue reading...

Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year

18.02.2026 16:05 👍 93 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
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Canary Islands nobility uses baroque art hoard to pay inheritance tax bill

The counts of Vega Grande de Guadalupe settled their debt — estimated to be up to €5 million — by handing over works by Murillo and Giordano to the treasury

17.02.2026 16:50 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Gorgeous!

17.02.2026 14:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thought Ollie was a lovely homemade loaf at first glance!

17.02.2026 10:32 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Absolutely.

15.02.2026 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So harrowing too. So many issues, deftly handled. And great characters.

15.02.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know! Don’t know how we’re going to cope with it all coming to an end. Already dreading what’s going to happen.

15.02.2026 21:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0