Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
In Focus
The opening paragraph of “Searching for memory: Aluízio Palmar and the shadow of dictatorship in Brazil” brings the startling news that in 2019 Aluízio Palmar was sued by the retired army officer who had once tortured him. Sean Sheehan Aluízio was an armed militant opposed to Brazil’s dictatorship […]
Such was the misery he had to suffer, that he came to witness the death by starvation of his children, who slowly disappeared due to the unhealthiness of a city with neither electric light, an aqueduct nor a sewer. Unlike the shot fired in his heart by the poet José […]
“The boys” is about a small number of characters who live around northwest London and who, on the face of it, are not unduly troubled by the fractures and complexities of their world. Sean Sheehan There is little sense of crisis or despair and the novel itself reads […]
The true need of creating a police body was due to with the appearance of the first national states and the rapid growth of cities and commerce. The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK. Silvio Gonzalez Everyday life forced […]
Wine, vodka, gin, beer, whisky, champagne, port, rum, absinthe, cider, ale… the catalogue of alcoholic drinks stocked on shelves across the country is almost as innumerable as the health issues ensuing from excessive use of them: cancer of the mouth, neck and throat; high-blood pressure, an irregular heart beat and […]
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