Alex Ellis

🇬🇧 Ambassador to 🇪🇸 & 🇦🇩 Follow the Embassy at @ukinspain

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Junto a @Ed_Miliband 🇬🇧 en su 1ª visita oficial a 🇪🇸 en su 2ª semana en el @FCDOGovUK en la que se reunió con @jmalbares @MAECgob
Reforzamos nuestra alianza estratégica en acción climática, transición energética limpia, seguridad, igualdad de género y crecimiento 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇸

[José Manuel Albares @jmalbares]

Las relaciones entre España y Reino Unido atraviesan su mejor momento.

El Acuerdo respecto a Gibraltar y el derribo de la Verja son la prueba de que el diálogo, la cooperación y el multilateralismo mejoran la vida de nuestros ciudadanos. (1/3)

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Viva España!

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

“Modesty, hard work, organisation and, above all, unity”.

As coach Luis de la Fuente said: “We faced the best players, but we were the best team”.

⚽ Read Michael Reid @TheEconomist about the Spanish football team as an mirror of the Spanish society.

https://t.co/444UegNTS6

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

¡Enhorabuena, @SEFutbol! Ayer fue un día para la historia de 🇪🇸, que se convierte en campeona del mundo⭐️⭐️Un equipo unido, tranquilo y brillante que ha emocionado a todo un país y a toda la embajada @ukinspain

Como aficionado del Arsenal, me alegro por Raya, Zubimendi y Merino

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

He venido a La Línea para celebrar este día histórico: hoy abrimos la puerta a una etapa llena de oportunidades para todos, para la relación entre Gibraltar y el Campo, entre España y el Reino Unido, y entre el Reino Unido y la Unión Europea.

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

España magnifica. Una victoria merecedíssima. #mundialdefútbol

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Su Majestad el Rey Carlos III @royalfamily ha enviado un mensaje de condolencias a Su Majestad el Rey Felipe @casareal transmitiéndole, en su nombre y en el de la Reina, su más sentido pésame y solidaridad con los afectados por esta tragedia.

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Sigo muy pendiente de la situación en Almería y deseo expresar mi solidaridad con los afectados y con las familias que afrontan momentos de enorme angustia e incertidumbre.

1/4…

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

También quiero expresar mi gratitud por la extraordinaria labor de nuestro equipo consular en apoyo a los ciudadanos británicos y sus familias, que seguirá mientras sea necesario.

3/4

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Los servicios consulares de @ukinspain están apoyando a los afectados británicos desde primera hora de la mañana. (2/2)

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Conmocionado por el trágico incendio en Los Gallardos (Almería). Mis pensamientos están con todos los afectados, incluidos los británicos, y mando mi apoyo a los servicios de emergencia que trabajan para sofocar las llamas. (1/2)

[UK in Spain @ukinspain]

🏳️‍🌈Representantes de @ukinspain estuvieron en el #MadridOrgullo2026 en favor de la protección de los derechos de las personas LGTBI+ en todo el mundo.

Porque nuestra diversidad nos hace más fuertes.

#GREATLoveIsForEveryone

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

Tras la fantástica Grand Départ de Barcelona, el 🇬🇧 acogerá la salida de @letour_uk en 2027. Será la primera vez que las pruebas masculina y femenina parten del mismo país fuera de 🇫🇷.

Ya estoy entrenando por si @Movistar_Team necesita un refuerzo... 🚴‍♂️

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

La receta que he utilizado para esta mermelada está inspirada en The Book of Preserves, de @thepamthejam
Mi hermana contribuyó al libro y siempre me lo ha recomendado. Si os gustan las mermeladas y las conservas caseras, merece muchísimo la pena. 🍓📖

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

🍓🎾 Comienza @Wimbledon y he querido celebrarlo preparando una deliciosa mermelada de 🍓.

¿Sabíais que las 🍓 son uno de los grandes símbolos del torneo? Hemos utilizado las de Huelva, muy apreciadas también en 🇬🇧

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending Marc Bloch's reburial ceremony at the Panthéon – Paris' monument to the most outstanding citizens of France. Bloch was honored not only as one of the greatest French historians, but also as a man who chose resistance over safety when his country fell into darkness.

Bloch fought in two World Wars, and received multiple awards for bravery. By the time the pro-Nazi Vichy regime came to power in 1940, Bloch was already recognized as perhaps the preeminent historian of medieval France. He continued to teach history, and during that time wrote 'Strange Defeat', a book explaining the French defeat in 1940, and 'The Historian’s Craft', a meditation on history and historiography. Bloch also joined the Résistance and became one of its leaders.

On March 8, 1944 Bloch was captured during a crackdown on the Résistance by the Nazis and their French collaborators. At the time, collaborationist French newspapers celebrated Bloch’s capture. They highlighted his Jewish identity, and referred to the historian as a traitor to France, describing the Résistance as a Jewish-Bolshevik terrorist organization. Bloch was imprisoned and tortured at the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, and was executed on June 16, 1944, ten days after the Allied landing in Normandy.

I am a medievalist by training, and have been deeply influenced by Bloch. What moved me most about Bloch is his uncompromising commitment to truth. For him, history was never nostalgia or mythmaking, but a discipline of honesty – a way of resisting propaganda, prejudice, and the comfort of convenient fictions. For Bloch, truth was not just an intellectual position, but a spiritual practice. Anticipating his death at the hands of the Gestapo and the Vichy regime, the Jewish historian and freedom fighter left behind detailed instructions for his burial. He wrote:

“I have not asked to have read above my body those Jewish prayers to the cadence of which so many of my ancestors, including my father, were laid to rest. All my life I have striven to achieve complete sincerity in word and thought. I hold that any compromise with untruth, no matter what the pretext, is the mark of a human soul’s ultimate corruption. […] That is why I find it impossible, at this moment of my last farewell, when, if ever, a man should be true to himself, to authorize any use of those formulae of an orthodoxy to the beliefs of which I have ever refused to subscribe.
But I should hate to think that anyone might read into this statement of personal integrity even the remotest approximation to a coward’s denial. I am prepared, therefore, if necessary, to affirm here, in the face of death, that I was born a Jew: that I have never denied it, nor ever been tempted to do so. […] A stranger to all credal dogmas, as to all pretended community of life and spirit based on race, I have, through life, felt that I was above all, and quite simply, a Frenchman. A family tradition, already of long date, has bound me firmly to my country. I have found nourishment in her spiritual heritage and in her history. I can, indeed, think of no other land whose air I could have breathed with such a sense of ease and freedom. I have loved her greatly, and served her with all my strength. I have never found that the fact of being a Jew has at all hindered these sentiments. Though I have fought in two wars, it has not fallen to my lot to die for France. But I can, at least, in all sincerity, declare that I die now, as I have lived, a good Frenchman.”

By his request, a Latin epitaph was carved on Bloch’s grave: dilexi veritatem (“I have loved the truth”).

Watching Bloch's memory honored at the Panthéon yesterday did not feel like a tribute to the past as much as a challenge to the present. As dark clouds gather once again, how many of us today can demonstrate Bloch's level of integrity and fearlessness?

[UK in Spain @ukinspain]

El embajador británico @AlexWEllis habla con @larazon_es sobre el décimo aniversario del referéndum y analiza las actuales relaciones entre el Reino Unido y la UE, así como entre el Reino Unido y España https://t.co/ruqVYLJbTA

[Alex Ellis @AlexWEllis]

He acompañado a los 18 militares 🇬🇧 de la @RoyalAirForce en el Centro de Operaciones Aéreas Combinadas @nato #caoctorrejon, que trabajan con militares de otros 17 países para defender nuestro continente europeo @UKDefenceSpain

[UKDefenceinSpain @UKDefenceSpain]

El embajador @AlexWEllis ha asistido al izado de bandera en honor al personal 🇬🇧 de la @RoyalAirForce en el Centro de Operaciones Aéreas Combinadas @nato #caoctorrejon, que coordina las operaciones aéreas aliadas y la respuesta rápida a incidentes y vigila el espacio aéreo