Collect statements from the king in 2025

The work of journalists, in the 21st century, perhaps should no longer consist of recording the words spoken by a power broker: social media allows them to address the audience without intermediaries. If we want to add value, we must decode them. If a businessman talks about downsizing, it's necessary to openly state that there will be layoffs, because downsizing is never upward. And if a politician talks about budgetary rigor, then it's time to explain that public service cuts are planned.

I was thinking while reading this headline.The World: "The king defends that Spain's link with NATO is 'more vital than ever'." It's a very oblique way of asking Spain to invest 5% of its GDP in defense, as Trump demands. Which means stop spending money on social protection. Which, as it turns out, doesn't particularly affect the monarch or his entourage. So much so that Trump likes it. The World They're making interpretive headlines, and it's hard to understand how they let this one slip by: "The King advocates dismantling the welfare state to buy more weapons." We live under a constant barrage of politicized messages that have rendered words meaningless, far removed from the everyday experience of many people. The need to defend against a sufficiently diffuse threat has occupied far more recent front pages than the potential-less plight of the homeless.