our guest today is timothy appleton who joins us via skype. madrid. tim is author and political campaigner with a phd in philosophy. he's currently linguistics lecturer at madrid's camilo jose fella university. welcome to the show. tim, as we saw in our report there ioni barara has been an outspoken advocate for palestine, hasn't she? i wonder if you could just say a word or two about how that's been received by the spanish public and indeed the political establishment for that matter. and thanks for uh. um uh the invitation to speak, chris, um, good evening, yes, the um uh, the reception she's had by the spanish political establishment has not been especially warm, um, although that's probably to do with the relationship between the political parties in spain, um, which is quite a a cantanchous relationship in general, but on the substance of the issue, um, she's not really speaking um, too far out of turn, because there's a lot of consensus. for palestine amongst ordinary spanish people. um, there was a poll done by yuugav at the end of 2023 with fo