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We’re All Just Fine by Ana Penyas review – home truths in a tyrant’s reign

Rich in detail, this award-winning debut explores the evolution of Spanish womanhood through drudgery, dictatorship and liberation

The Guardian - UK

New book looks at lives of four Scottish volunteers who fought in Spanish Civil War

I HAVE written often enough

The National (Scotland)

Remains of anti-Franco activist who died in 1973 recovered in Catalonia

Forensics identify remains of Cipriano Martos, an antifascist forced to drink sulphuric acid during a police interrogation

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Spanish director Carlos Saura dies aged 91

Spanish director Carlos Saura, who died on Friday, hit the global spotlight in the 1960s with critiques of Franco's dictatorship, later focusing on films about music and dance, notably flamenco and tango.

Radio France Internationale

TGA psychedelics decision met with relief, cautious optimism and 'serious reservations'

Advocates welcome a surprise decision from Australia's drug regulator to approve two psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment, but some clinicians are concerned the decision may be premature.

ABC News

‘Some weeks I only speak to the postman’: how to escape learned loneliness – and soar socially

The time we spend with our close friends has plummeted over the past decade. Here is an expert guide to making new connections and reviving old ones

The Guardian - UK

What is Opus Dei, and why is it so controversial — both in and out of the Catholic Church?

While the group is known for its secrecy, this is far from the first time it has appeared in the headlines.

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Madrid exhibition tells story of Spaniards sent to Nazi concentration camp

About 7,500 Spanish Republicans who fled to France were deported to Mauthausen camp in Austria

The Guardian - UK

Spain exhumes 53 bodies from Franco dictatorship's shallow graves

Forensic archaeologists have exhumed 53 bodies from shallow graves in the Basque town of Orduna that were dug in 1941, as part of a process of healing the country's wounds from the Franco dictatorship era.

Reuters

‘Rebekah Vardy is a warrior’: the Game of Thrones star who’s turning Wagatha Christie into a serious drama

From learning to flush loos in fake nails, to acting like her face was frozen by cosmetics, taking on the trial of the century wasn’t easy. Ex-Harry Potter actor and wildling Natalia Tena tells all

The Guardian - UK

Can new Spanish law lay the ghosts of the Civil War to rest?

‘Democratic Memory Laws’ bring some relief to families of General Franco’s victims, but much needs to be done, they say.

Al Jazeera

Ferrari | North America, Imola: Franco takes lights-to-flag win in interrupted race

It was poleman Manny Franco (Ferrari Lake Forest) who took the win in the gathering gloom of the first race of round 7 of the Ferrari Challenge North America after some of his closest rivals on the grid were eliminated in incidents that brought out the safety car three times.

Motorsport

You need to watch the most revolutionary ghost story on HBO Max ASAP

“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?”

Inverse

Robert Wilson: ‘We shouldn’t make theatre if we can’t laugh’

As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic

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Anger in Spain at vandalism of memorial to German fighter pilot

Memorial to Nazi airman shot down in Spanish civil war had been looked after by Spanish ace who killed him

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Spanish fascist’s family to exhume remains from Valley of the Fallen

Family of José Antonio Primo de Rivera act before new legislation designed to honour civil war and dictatorship victims takes effect

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Virtual Spanish civil war museum aims to cut through political divide

Online history centre launches against backdrop of renewed debate over the conflict’s legacy

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Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

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‘I was lacking deeper connection’: can online friends be the answer to loneliness?

People you don’t see face to face can still provide a community, says Yasmina Floyer

Motorsport

Ferrari Challenge puts on dramatic show for Race 1 Sonoma

Ferrari Challenge took to the hills of Sonoma for the final North American weekend of its 2022 championship.

The Independent UK

‘I feel like I was used’: The rise of ‘friend bombing’ and why we need to talk about it

Have you ever experienced an intense, emotional friendship at rapid speed, only for it to come crashing down just as quickly? Then you may have been friend bombed, writes Olivia Petter

The Guardian - UK

Spanish civil war book reveals hidden history of female journalists

Women less interested in ‘macho competitiveness of violence’ in conflict, says author

Edinburgh Live

An Edinburgh student has been left with just the clothes on her back after Southside fire

Emergency services raced to Franco's Fish and Chips in the Southside of the capital on August 8 after it caught fire. Unfortunately student Aimee has lost everything after the flames engulfed her flat above.

The National (Scotland)

New book honours Scots who fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco

THE Spanish Civil War has fascinated historians and the politically minded for nearly nine decades and most Scots with an interest in the subject…

The Guardian - UK

Letters: secret, broken family courts betrayed me and my child

Children and protective parents are being let down by a system in which pseudo-science holds sway

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