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This paper investigates the interest and political participation of Madrid pre-university students in the new political Spanish scenario. A wide bibliographic review of international and national studies is developed. The results of a survey involving 250 pre-university students in Madrid is also are analyzed. The study results reveal that support of parties and leaders is very low. However, the interest in politics and the evaluation of the vote are very high. Besides, unconventional mechanisms such as social movements, strikes, demonstrations and the social networks achieve an important support. Young people get informed about politics through digital newspapers, televisions and social networks. The paper concludes that Madrid's pre-university students have interest in politics but they feel disaffection towards parties and their leaders. The distancing and rejection is directed to the functioning of democracy, not to democracy itself. It is urgent to renew and regenerate the conventional political structures to reconnect with this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of renewed interest in the 1918-1919 flu pandemic as a result of the development of COVID-19, this paper presents a reflection from the point of view of the social history of medicine on the transformation that the erroneously named "Spanish flu" brought to the working environment of health professionals in Spain, combining what happened in Madrid and in the country as a whole. Using as our sources monographs and the principal professional scientific journals of physicians, pharmacists and veterinarians, together with a selection from the general press and documentation from both houses of Parliament, we show how the daily activity of doctors was marked by the escalation of their clinical work as well as a considerable deployment of laboratory research in order to establish the aetiology of the flu and to prepare specific therapeutic and prophylactic measures. We show the difficulties this work encountered, and the interest of pharmacists and veterinarians in reproducing this new aspect of science and competing with doctors to achieve greater involvement in the bacteriological fight against infectious diseases. The paper also points out how, faced by the difficulty of controlling the pandemic, a section of the medical profession turned to the socioeconomic inequalities (poor working and living conditions, overcrowding, shortage and cost of food, medicine and basic necessities) in the working population and shortcomings in health care to explain its extreme seriousness, and proposed scientific medical and general measures to correct the situation in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Capital needs a favourable scenario for its reproduction and the lack of institutional guarantees can become a substantial limitation. Although its mobility is an intrinsic characteristic of the current phase of globalization, this is the reason that the Catalan secessionist attempt, which reached its peak with the referendum of 1 October 2017, promoted the transfer of a big number of companies in this Community to other Spanish regions, mainly to the Community of Madrid. This paper is structured in three sections and aims to analyze the historical and political circumstances in which this process occurred, as well as its consequences (loss of millions of euros in bank deposits, transfer of management centers, cancellation of international events, reduction in the number of tourists, etc.). Likewise, it examines, from opinions of experts, the effects that this process will continue to have in this and other Spanish Autonomous Communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the links between the gentrification process of the Madrilenian district of Chueca and homosexual presence. As envisioned, Chueca already was in the gay and transvestite epicenter from decades ago. It is further argued that the gay business and residential attraction of the 90's and 2000's alone do not explain the participation of gay and lesbian population in the process of gentrification and neighborhood rehabilitation. It is necessary to look at representations of the male homosexual, to the changes in their lifestyles, to grasp the changes in Chueca image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]