Rupert Cocke

Spain's terrible wildfires show the government should think hard about incentives to bring young people back to the countryside and set aside more money for fire prevention. Also, rolling over budgets should trigger snap elections. 1/2

Spain was becoming much better at sidelining favouritism as a way of running organisations. Recent scandals suggest that the battle is far from won, though. 1/2

Around 2,400 years ago, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring a warning from his teacher Socrates that reading would erode our memories. 1/2

What can Feijóo (the leader of the opposition in Spain) learn from Starmer (the former leader of the opposition in the UK, who struggled to adapt to power)? 1/2

Top-level modern football is very different from the game that I grew up watching. Please read a free essay on my personal blog about a revolution that began in the Netherlands in the 1970s, spread to Barça in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has spread from there. 1/2

To split progressivism from "cancel culture," we will need to update Popper's paradox of toleration for these populist times 1/2

Would you expect the average German or the average Spaniard to be richer? 1/2

What can we learn about Spanish history from paella, cocido madrileño, and marmitako? 1/2

Splitting progressive views from "cancel culture" is a difficult project. How should we do it? 1/2

A little introspection now and then should be enough to show us that we are social animals. 1/2