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Stephen Burgen

@stephenburgen.bsky.social
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Serial immigrant. Writer and journalist. Writes about Spain for The Guardian and Observer. Latest story collection The Jacket stephenburgen.com Barcelona, Spain

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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Spanish government approves measures to ease housing crisis after outcry over eviction
Decrees include extending ban on evictions of vulnerable people after 87-year-old was forced out of her home
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
Housing rights campaigners decry landlord’s ‘barbaric behaviour’ after apartment Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years was bought by a developer
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’
Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘We broke the rules:’ why chef Ferran Adriá is the subject of new TV drama
Six-part drama Gènesi tells the story of Adriá’s Catalan restaurant El Bulli from the day he arrived as a kitchen hand
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘A fierce need to be independent’: Gerda Taro biopic pulls photographer out of lover Robert Capa’s shadow
Film premieres at Venice as researchers question who took famous Spanish civil war shot of ‘falling soldier’, credited to the pair’s Robert Capa alias
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you live in Catalunya from now on to access CatSalut you need to sign up to idCat. Have tried several times without success. Of course it lets you go through the entire process before saying it didn't work out though not why. Does anyone ever test these things?
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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No eggs, no potatoes but ‘a lot of imagination’: how Spain cooked in war’s hunger years
Book recreates recipes from period following end of Spanish civil war when people faced food shortages
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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La Agencia Española de Nutrición publica un informe sobre mujeres con menopausia con datos obtenidos en hombres
Los datos sobre la ingesta de hierro o vitamina C del informe de AESAN publicado en abril se basan en estudios realizados solo en hombres y carecen de rigor científico, según denuncian varias investig...
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/age...
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La Agencia Española de Nutrición publica un informe sobre mujeres con menopausia con datos obtenidos en hombres
Los datos sobre la ingesta de hierro o vitamina C del informe de AESAN publicado en abril se basan en estudios realizados solo en hombres y carecen de rigor científico, según denuncian varias investig...
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem
As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animals
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project
Team hope 30 of hours of footage held by three countries will be enough to bring to life film-maker’s vision
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Spanish PM’s former right-hand man jailed for 24 years for corruption
José Luis Ábalos found to have taken bribes on Covid-era public contracts in damaging blow to Pedro Sánchez
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Faithful line streets as Pope Leo to bless Sagrada Família on centenary of Gaudí’s death
As completion of 144-year construction nears, questions swirl over resemblance of church to architect’s original plans
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Written under collapsing ceilings, typed on phones: the poetry bringing Palestine to the world
Two new poetry collections tackle themes of trauma, exile, resistance and love amid conflict in Gaza
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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‘The end of the road’: the man on a mission to take Barcelona back from overtourism
José Antonio Donaire is not against tourists but wants to return the city to its residents – and he is starting with its most iconic market
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
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Un turista de Estados Unidos de vacaciones en Mallorca pide asilo político por temor a Trump
El hombre se personó con un abogado en un cuartel de la Guardia Civil de la isla para hacer la petición
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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‘It’s a world heritage site, but it’s my home’: the last resident of Casa Milà on life in Gaudí’s masterwork
Ana Viladomiu has been a ‘privileged’ resident of the once derided, now revered Barcelona apartment building for almost 40 years
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Junts confirma su rechazo en el Congreso al decreto que prorroga los alquileres - Junts, el PP con estelada, la voz auténtica de la burguesía catalana.
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hace unos días activó el bloqueo gratis de llamadas fraudulentas o de spam que se ofrece Movistar y desde entonces he recibido aún más llamadas que nunca. ¿Qué pasa?
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Spain champions migration’s benefits with regularisation scheme – but queues are long
Migrants navigate complicated documentation and long queues to regularise their status under decree expected to benefit at least 500,000 people
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Spanish politicians clash over request to move Picasso’s Guernica
Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artwork
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Presumably anyone who washes down a plate of cap i pota with wine at 11am is either a pensioner, unemployed or unemployable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stop brunch! How a rustic Catalan meal is taking the fight to bland food and overtourism | Abbas Asaria
As Barcelona groans under a surfeit of generic cafes, a grassroots movement is reviving the traditional ‘fork breakfast’. Anyone for pigs’ trotters, asks food writer Abbas Asaria
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Morrissey cancels Valencia concert after being left in ‘catatonic state’ by city noise
After latest concert cancellation, singer also describes Valencia hotel as ‘indescribable hell’ that will require ‘one year to recover’ from
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Spain to formally pardon 53 women incarcerated by Franco regime
Thousands of girls were locked up by Board for the Protection of Women for ‘rehabilitation’
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
First, forced to renew Brit passport. Now they say if the name on my Spanish passport doesn't match - of course it doesn't because in Spain you have to have two surnames - they won't issue Brit passport until I change name on Spanish one which is impossible.
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Por que no pregunta quien son las 168 niñas asesinadas en Iran? www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
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Quién son los cuatro soldados americanos muertos en el ataque de drones de Irán
Su trabajo consistía en garantizar que las tropas desplegadas dispusieran de alimentos, equipos y suministros
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place
Completion of glass cross brings Antoni Gaudí’s church to maximum final height of 172.5m, 144 years after work began
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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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
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Spain’s rail network under scrutiny after second deadly crash in as many days
Trainee driver killed in accident near Barcelona just days after 43 died in collision between two high-speed trains
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Warning over TikTok scam using AI-generated videos of Spain’s Princess Leonor
Princess of Asturias Foundation issues warning about fraud using fake profiles and videos purporting to show heir to Spanish throne
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"In her years of quiet devotion and in the dignity with which she endured so much, Giménez was a rare blaze of grace and humility in an ever-darker, ever-crueller world. That (and not Monkey Christ) was her legacy" Such a beautiful piece by @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Cecilia Giménez’s botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones
The restorer, who died on Monday, brought unwanted attention to herself – and her small Spanish town. Then, slowly, a small miracle took place, says Sam Jones, the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94
Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I’ve reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term ‘thinking outside the box’. - Warren Buffett
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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More than 3,000 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2025
Tighter border controls caused arrivals to decline sharply but forced people on to more dangerous routes, activists say
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/12/2025
‘Too important not to fight for’: Spain’s wine industry seeks infusion of new blood
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‘Too important not to fight for’: Spain’s wine industry seeks infusion of new blood
Rural depopulation compounding challenges of climate emergency and changing technologies in drawing young people to sector
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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No gels, no foams: Catalonia turns to grannies to teach traditional cooking
Region famed for molecular gastronomy begins video project to collect and share rustic recipes
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
Mayor of La Bañeza says winning El Gordo Christmas lottery ‘is something that has fallen from the heavens’
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Spain’s socialists shed voters in regional election as far right makes gains
Vox doubles its seats in Extremadura as Socialist Workers’ party, mired in corruption scandals, loses 10 of its 28 seats
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 05/12/2025
La llamaron “machorra” y “marimacho”. Hoy es referente y goleadora. La odisea de Edna Imade hasta la selección. Un texto de @ricardouribarri.bsky.social
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Edna Imade: un don para cambiar su vida
La delantera de 25 años debuta con la selección tras recibir la nacionalidad por carta de naturaleza. Su historia comenzó con su familia huyendo de la guerra de Nigeria y alcanzando Algeciras en patera
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades
About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
They leave you a wasteland and they call it peace - Tacitus
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body
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FranJ Díaz @franj.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
La suscripción de EMT sale baratísima para poder sufragar tremenda cantidad de factardos.
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So a man indicted on war crimes, along with his principal armourer, propose a peace deal to the people they have persecuted and whom they haven't consulted and propose a supra-government led by a brainless narcissist and everyone seems to think that, basically, this is the best we can do. Correct?
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Stephen Burgen @stephenburgen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Who’s going to do all the dirty work when all the slaves are free? - Joni Mitchell
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