Spain’s interim prime minister may end an eight-month legislative stalemate today. His party is considering an offer of support for a new government, in exchange for political reforms.

It’s easy to get cynical about those Parisian all-nighters with their high ideals and revolutionary slogans but maybe, just maybe, it’s time to think about setting up a nocturnal movement here, writes Clodagh Finn

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Madrid today in a show of strength by a fledgling radical leftist party, which hopes to emulate the success of Greece’s Syriza party in the Spanish general election later this year.