Spain’s woke autocracy | Maria Reglero

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Pedro Sánchez’s Spain has become a testing ground for all the worst woke ideas. His ‘progressive’ coalition has embraced trans ideology and gender self-identification. It is planning to grant legal residency to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants. Meanwhile, two fatal train crashes in short succession point to the government’s corruption, nepotism and negligence. Yet criticising these failings could soon get a lot more difficult, as ministers are mulling a total ban on X, Elon Musk’s free-speech platform, as part of a crackdown on dissenting speech. Here, Barcelona-based journalist Maria Reglero warns that freedom and democracy are on the line. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Pedro Sanchise is a mastermind of reflecting attention, particularly from corruption, from the local level to the regional level to the national level.
0:39.3	His inner circle, his wife, his brother are now sitting in prison in pre-trial for bribery.
0:46.3	We're really second-tire of being called fascist and racist when we cannot pay our rents,
0:52.3	when we have inflation, and we have this issue with migration and integration.
0:57.0	We've had corruption across the board,
1:00.0	but now it's costing lives.
1:02.0	And this is a fight for freedom.
1:05.0	This is a fight for freedom.
1:10.0	Hello, I'm Georgina Mumford, and I'm delighted to be joined today by women's rights
1:14.6	consultant Maria Reglero.
1:16.6	Welcome Maria.
1:17.6	Hi, Georgina is great to be with you.
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