Politics

Minister Garzón’s announcement on limitations on advertising for children of foods considered unhealthy has generated all kinds of comments. The old saying “you can’t play with food” has proved its validity, both because of the seriousness of the data used to justify the measure (40% of obesity in children aged 6 to 9 years), and …

‘Who’s up for the Nano this year?’ Someone asks in my writing support group chat. Yes, let’s go, five friends who have been trying to write a novel for about four years, and all five of us are eager, like every autumn, to get started at once or take up the cursed literary project we’ve …

Lately I think we have a kind of social blindness or shortsightedness. We are so focused on our navel that what happens not only in the world but in Europe itself, we see it as alien. Somehow I think we feel that it is not going to affect us. That until we don’t see it, …

It’s coffee time in the morning and Richard Norton-Taylor and I chat about secrecy, deception and brown envelopes, something that comes naturally to us. He was a defence and security correspondent for The Guardian and I am now. The British embassy spy: discreet, on-staff and a collector of Russian flags Read more Norton-Taylor joined the …

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is one of the essential names in contemporary cinema. He has earned it with visceral fantasies (in more than one sense) of body horror like Chromosome 3 or Videodrome, but also with many other works in a filmography with a number of ramifications with a recognisable sensibility: Crash, A History of …

The Community of Madrid denies treatment to HIV-positive migrants ‘Casado, Arnaldo, a career and post in the Constitutional’, by Ignacio Escolar Labour will regain a more active role in the control of collective dismissals

Big names in the world of Justice have been warning for some time about its deterioration. For Perfecto Andrés Ibáñez, former judge of the Supreme Court, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) “exhibits since its first formation the stigma of partisan political-instrumental manipulation” and is “an instance that has been living for more than …

Choosing a microwave may seem like a simple choice but if we really want to spend our money well we must take into account some considerations, especially because the range of products and prices is high and we may end up spending more than 300 euros when for less than 100 we would have found …

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern left an open-air press conference in the Northland town of North Island on Tuesday after being heckled by at least two anti-vaccine activists. Words matter: how New Zealand’s clear message has helped beat the virus Read more Ardern was explaining details of the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in …

The financial sector and its role in fossil fuel investments, pointed out by social organizations. The Paris Climate Agreement states that financial flows must be “consistent with a path towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilient development”. And although this issue is being addressed for the first time by the international community at COP26, …