Politics

Sitting in front of a future, 17 women attend a workshop where three men give them notions on how to manage one of the most difficult ties for anyone: the one that binds you to a bank. To the financial institution, that is. They ask how to make international transfers or how to avoid loan …

Mary Beard is retiring. But only from one of her many jobs, the one in which she has invested more years and to which she professes more affection: teaching. The professor leaves the University of Cambridge, leaving room for those at the bottom and having turned the academic sector upside down. If today we know …

Gigi Higham was 30 years old when she first considered the possibility of having a child with a gay friend if, when the time came, she didn’t have a partner. Even then, she shared the idea with her mother, who encouraged her to do so immediately. It was still early days for her, but the …

Eight years after the controversial sale of 1,806 social housing to the investment fund Blackstone for 128.5 million euros perpetrated during the mandate of Ana Botella at the head of the Madrid City Council, those directly responsible for that operation sit in the dock this Tuesday, in a trial that will last until the end …

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) sounded the warning more than a year ago: COVID-19 was creating a “perfect storm” for the emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections in healthcare settings. Use skyrocketed, especially in the most critically ill patients requiring very aggressive medical interventions, but not only. The initial ignorance of the virus led, through …

Once Pedro Sánchez has been acclaimed, the PSOE continues the processes of renewal of its territorial leaderships. The regional presidents are being revalidated in the General Secretaries by acclamation, and Concha Andreu joins this club ending the bicephalia in La Rioja. In addition to this new face at the organic level, five federations that are …

“They were big and strong and they hit us like lightning,” says Aphrodite Frangou, a left-wing activist and journalist recalling the moment when a group of supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party launched their attack. “They kicked us, beat us and broke tables, chairs and even the loudspeakers we had set up. Four of …

More than half a million euros. It is the amount that the Treasury claims to the Operator of the Organized Gas Market in the Iberian Peninsula (Mibgas) for the VAT of 2018, an exercise in which this company that finances consumers through the gas tariff still had as president Antonio Erias, former deputy of the …

For several weeks we have been talking about sexual and reproductive rights and obstetric violence and how it is urgent that many things in this regard are considered in the law on sexual and reproductive health (I leave the link to the columns). Today we are going to talk about how women with disabilities live …

In Congress, time, Julio Camba wrote in Diario de un escéptico, is a plentiful thing, which is always in surplus and one never knows how to use it. The popular chronicler often protested against the imposition of aggressive oratory as opposed to the clear and calm parliamentarism of those deputies who rose modestly from their …