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Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers

A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man – they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how it’s atoning for his absence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24

Colombian President Petro Slams GOP Rep. For Saying He 'Signed His Own Sentence': 'You Don't Have The Right'

Colombian President Gustavo Petro slammed GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez for saying he had "signed his own sentence" by claiming that the Cartel de los Soles, which the Trump administration claims is being led by Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, doesn't exist.

Latin Times · Aug 26, 2025

‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer

The former Labour leader and his son tell Donald McRae how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sport

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2025

Chile votes in second constitutional referendum

This weekend, Chileans will again vote on whether or not to replace the country's constitution. The current one dates back to 1980 and the Pinochet dictatorship. The December 17 referendum is the second attempt to change the text. But for campaigners hoping for a more liberal document, with equal rights…

France 24 · Dec 14, 2023

Benedict Birnberg obituary

Pioneering lawyer and civil liberties campaigner who paved the way for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023

The Eternal Memory review – potent portrait of a devoted couple dealing with Alzheimer’s

Oscar-nominated Maite Alberdi’s empathic documentary witnesses a love surviving the devastation of worsening dementia

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023

Chile’s right wing presents draft conservative constitution

Draft, which some observers consider a step backwards, could threaten rights to abortion and collective strike action

The Guardian - US · Nov 7, 2023

Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state. She was named by the…

The Conversation · Oct 6, 2023

Paz Errázuriz: The female photographer who defied the Pinochet regime

On the week marking 50 years since the bloody military coup that brought Pinochet to power in Chile, we meet the woman who used her camera to defy the dictatorship. It was dangerous for anyone to capture life in Chile under Pinochet – let alone a woman determined to show…

France 24 · Sep 15, 2023

El Conde review – Pinochet rises from the dead in Pablo Larraín’s gothic horror

The Chilean dictator returns as a vampire – and his family’s out for blood. But this alternative history, though entertaining, feels​ politically enigmatic

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023