Dr David Mathieson

Lapsed lawyer and adviser to Robin Cook. Now commentator in Spain. The moving finger writes...

[Sam @SamCKx]

These people have no shame.

Nigel Farage — Fee paying — Dulwich College
Richard Tice — Fee paying — Uppingham School
Robert Jenrick — Fee paying — Wolverhampton Grammar School
Danny Kruger — Fee paying — Eton College
Suella Braverman — Fee paying — Heathfield School
Sarah Pochin — Fee paying — Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls
Zia Yusuf — Fee paying — Hampton School

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

Tice’s family were wealthy - he went to Uppingham - an extremely good public school. Tice worked in property etc making millions of £s. He’s an ex Con & an ex MEP
Trying to pretend there’s an “establishment” stitch up is as ludicrous as pretending you’re not a life long member of “the establishment”

[Fabian Picardo @FabianPicardo]

Hi @SuellaBraverman. You have it wrong, starting with the title of my office... 🤦‍♂️. Please read all the text and the supporting documents and stop playing politics with the People of Gibraltar whose future YOU and your ilk put in great jeopardy with #Brexit. Stop misleading with your selective quotation of a complex document largely negotiated by YOUR Conservative government when it was in office and YOU were Home Secretary.

[Dr David Mathieson @mathiesonmadrid]

@DenisMacShane
@johnmcternan @Jimmy_Burns
Salvador Illa, the Catalan Starmer, sworn in yesterday as regional president.

Illa, el Starmer que aspira a serenar la política catalana vía @eldiarioes https://t.co/zcB0u0fbok

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Brendan is a carer. He looks after the elderly and vulnerable in Middlesbrough.

After he finished work, this is how he found his car.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: 648/650 seats declared

🔴 Labour: 412 (+211)
🔵 Conservatives: 121 (-250)
🟠 Lib Dems: 71 (+63)
🟡 SNP: 9 (-38)
🟣 Reform UK: 4 (+4)
🌼 Plaid Cymru: 4 (+2)
🟢 Green: 4 (+3)
🟤 DUP: 5 (-3)
⚪️ Other: 5 (+2)

Turnout: 60% (-7.6)

[Dr David Mathieson @mathiesonmadrid]

@pdlhistoria

[Óscar Puente @oscar_puente_]

Nos pasa de todo, pero que tenga que suspenderse la circulación entre El Escorial y Villalba en ambas vías por la aparición de un artefacto explosivo, aparentemente de la guerra civil, en la línea C-8a de Madrid y mercancías, era algo que no recuerdo que hubiese pasado antes.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union.

[Agenda Pública @a_publica]

En parte, Cameron hizo su promesa para socavar el partido ultra euroescéptico, UKIP, distanciarse de los europeístas LDs y así gobernar en solitario sin la coalición. Pero fue una estrategia de lo más insensata... Lee más por @mathiesonmadrid https://t.co/X34l038Hcr

[Máriam M.Bascuñán @MariamMartinezB]

"The lesson of this decade so far is that liberalism isn’t tenable without hard power."

https://t.co/pKb96nPfPi

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:

July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

[Ignasi Guardans @iguardans]

Un anuncio del @PSOE muy inteligente. La mentalidad que está detrás del diálogo de este vídeo es absolutamente real para mucha gente.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Chris Bryant shreds Rishi Sunak.

6.5 minutes long. Watch all of it in utter shock. This is our PM. How our nation has fallen 🫤

[Chris Shaw @The_ChrisShaw]

Could this be one of the reasons why "man of the people" Nigel Farage has been cancelled by "people's bank" Coutts & Co?

Superbly persistent doorstepping by the redoubtable @mattfrei

[A. W. kraft @Daddykraftss]

Paradox of Gibraltar row well told in FT by @barneyjopson @LOS_Fisher is that party causing trouble VOX is ultra-nationalist equivalent of UKIP or JRM-Hannam wing of Tories - ultra-nationalist, scornful of compromise with European partners @mathiesonmadrid

[Robert Peston @Peston]

It is very odd that Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone has - he says - not been switched on since April 2021. It is the phone that contains all the WhatsApps and messages relevant to Hallett’s Covid-19 inquiry, and presumably to Partygate. Has it really not been examined by Johnson, or his lawyers, or the Cabinet Office, or the security services since then? Did Sue Gray not ask to see it? What about the Privileges Committee? Did no one till today remember that it contains so much precious data? It wasn’t a secret that Johnson was asked for security reasons to stop using it, because his number was in the public domain. So it makes no sense that there has apparently been no attempt to re-activate it. Apart from anything else, if the fear was that Russia and China had hacked the phone, wouldn’t it be sensible to know what they would have found there?

[Dr David Mathieson @mathiesonmadrid]

Great chunks of left's 'Red Wall' in Spain collapsed today. Vox now in all regional parliaments @laSextaTV Labour had 5 years to rebuild, Sanchez has 5 months. @DenisMacShane

[Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones]

I know which type of 13 years of government I prefer. #VoteLabour

[Dr David Mathieson @mathiesonmadrid]

@colinrtalbot Whatever you do, don't make the next move Madrid.