Politics
The rise in the number of infections begins to overload Madrid’s emergency rooms, which are at their lowest for summer
Madrid hospitals begin to tremble one more summer. Professionals expected it because the situation is repeated every summer season in public health: close beds in the centers of reference and the staff is left under minimum by the holidays in the absence of replacements. The MATS union has already warned in a statement of the …
The Government counts on exhuming Primo de Rivera from the Valley of the Fallen with the agreement of his family.
After the exhumation of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen, it will be the turn of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The approval of the draft of the Law of Democratic Memory by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday puts closer and closer the transfer of his remains, an intention that had already expressed …
The forgotten sick during the pandemic: half of chronically ill patients are worse off than a year ago
The quality of life of patients with chronic diseases worsened during the pandemic: uncertainty, problems with care and delayed diagnosis were some of the problems they suffered. According to the third phase of the ‘Study of the impact of COVID-19 on people with a chronic disease’, prepared by the Platform of Patients’ Organizations (POP), only …
Ten years after Breivik’s attack in Utoya: “We have not learned the danger of extremism”.
In 2011, Sindre Lysø was 15 years old and it was the second time he attended the famous summer camp of the Norwegian Labour Party-affiliated Workers’ Youth League (AUF) on the island of Utoya. On 22 July, while at a briefing, the kids heard that there had been an explosion in Oslo. “I remember we …
Hitler’s favorite Luz Long’s impossible triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Tall, blond and blue-eyed, the long jumper Luz Long was the prototype athlete Adolf Hitler needed to prove his thesis about the supremacy of the Aryan race. The 1936 Olympic Games were being held in Berlin and the event was ideal for German athletes to show the world the superiority of their privileged genes. However, …
Gemma Nierga: “I have the feeling that I have reinvented myself”.
From the opinions of colleagues and comments on the networks, it can be said without sounding like a joke that Gemma Nierga (Girona, 1965) is a journalist who is well liked. We met on a terrace in Poblenou, the neighborhood where she lives and just a few meters from the headquarters of RNE in Barcelona, …
Judges in white coats
According to a certain idealized and profoundly erroneous image, while disagreement and controversy reign in politics, the legal sphere is a haven of light and clarity in which everything is firmly established according to immutable principles and rules. Faced with the turmoil of the political, the infallible stillness of the juridical. If there were still …
A useful Law of Memory for Spain
To speak of memory policies is to speak of the present. It is to speak of identity. Without memory there is no individual or collective identity. And without collective identity there is no society. A society is not only the sum of its members, but it is articulated from the common will to know what …
The price of being a left-wing leader
There are few people more prepared and with a more conciliatory and skilful character for agreement than the vice-president Yolanda Díaz. The achievements obtained -some of them with forceps- endorse her worth. But she is already being used as a target because she is a leftist, she fights for social rights, and that is something …
Pollution and child development
In recent years, studies on the detrimental effects of air pollution on children’s development have accumulated and the evidence is very conclusive. Exposure to high levels of micro particles and gases such as nitrogen dioxide has negative impacts on brain development (here, here, here, here, here, here, here), attention and memory (here, here, here, here), …