Once a hangout for sex workers and drug addicts, a parking lot in Medellín, Colombia, has been reborn as a green haven for all. We meet the ‘social urbanists’ credited with reducing crime – and even temperatures Lilac-flowering creepers engulf an abandoned house on a street corner in Medellín, Colombia, […]
Year: 2025
The anti-Tory energy that won the PM a majority last year has gone. He needs to give his old supporters new reasons to keep him in office When politicians can’t admit they are losing, they say they are listening. Your anger has been heard, says the contrite minister after a […]
Final season of the smash series scores a new record for the streaming platform in the first three days The third and final season of the hit Korean series Squid Game has broken records to become the biggest-ever TV launch for Netflix. Over its first three days, the series racked […]
One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to the war in Gaza, where a terrible humanitarian situation deteriorated even further. This is a timeline of what happened In the weeks leading up to Israel’s war with Iran, which it launched on […]
Calling the interviewees in this documentary survivors suggests their ordeals are over – but due to paltry laws and police reluctance, that is appallingly far from the case Hello and welcome to part 86,747,398,464 of the continuing cataloguing via television documentary of the apparently infinite series Ways in Which Largely […]
A mauling by MPs the day before took its toll on the work and pensions secretary amid yet more concessions to placate Labour rebels You’ve got to ask yourself one thing: Just how many Labour MPs really believe in the concessions – sorry, measures (I keep making that mistake) – […]
We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is a government complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent Juliet Stevenson is an award-winning actor Strongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the […]
Mary Dainton ‘stunned’ when police told her DNA evidence led them to man who raped and murdered Louisa Dunne Man, 92, convicted of raping and murdering Bristol woman in 1967 When police officers sat Mary Dainton down last year and told her they needed to talk about her grandmother, she […]
Not one member of the work and pensions secretary’s party came to her rescue as she laid out the government’s concessions – sorry, measures It was clear from the start that this was largely a domestic dispute. The Labour benches were as tightly rammed as they are for prime minister’s […]
The latest instalment marks a return to form after some recent duds, with all the expected Spielberg-style set pieces and excellent romantic chemistry between the leads What a comeback. The Jurassic World film series had looked to be pretty much extinct after some increasingly dire dollops of franchise content: Fallen […]