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Nov 25, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García
The opening chapters of Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, Angela Merkel’s surprisingly blunt new autobiography, provoke a mild feeling of discomfort. Not because of any previously unknown personal revelations or special quality of style.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García
For a man who had “never been interested” in money before leaving the White House in January 2001, Bill Clinton sure has made a lot of it in the intervening two-and-a-bit decades. Good old Bubba believes that “we all do better when we work together” – heartwarming stuff, particularly in the hyper-polarised modern world, so different from the apple-pie past.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García
On a Thursday evening last June, I found myself standing in a packed room in the House of Commons. The space had been turned into a temporary art gallery showcasing work made by a selection of IPP prisoners – the acronym stands for imprisonment for public protection – who had spent years in prison beyond their sentences or remained there, under the terms of the long-abolished indeterminate sentence, which had by then collectively been agreed upon as a point of national disgrace.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García
It’s the oddest thing, writes Alexei Navalny in Patriot, his posthumous memoir and final political testament. Dying from novichok poisoning doesn’t feel anything like you’d expect. “Heart? No pain. Stomach? Everything fine. Liver and other internal organs? Not even the slightest discomfort.” This numbness is total and terrifying.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Anna Bonet
It doesn’t take a particularly brilliant political analyst to understand the last decade of British history as a series of corrosive and seemingly never-ending crises and scandals. From Brexit and Covid to the dog days of Boris Johnson’s wantonly sleazy government and the morbid pageantry of the Queen’s death in 2022, a sense of palpable chaos and decay has long set in to the nation’s increasingly decrepit bones.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Troy Glasgow
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García
On the morning of 15 March 1994, the 58-year-old TV dramatist Dennis Potter arrived at South Bank Studios in London, to give his extraordinary final public interview to Melvyn Bragg. A month before, Potter – a television auteur and the creator of The Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven among dozens of other television plays, series and feature films – had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas and liver. No one knew how long the interview would last.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Anna Bonet
On 28th January 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger took off from its Florida launchpad, watched live by millions of Americans on CNN, including in school classrooms across the country. Just 73 seconds later, it was engulfed in flames, before disintegrating 46,000ft above the Atlantic Ocean. All seven on board were killed immediately, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher and the first non-astronaut to ride into space.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Anna Bonet
It’s easy to wonder if the world really needs another state of the nation polemic from a British politician. The past few years have birthed a spate of often disgracefully indulgent, self-exculpatory offerings from the likes of Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. Books which bemoan the cheapening of political life and public realm, written by those complicit in its debasement. Caroline Lucas is a different case.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
the-fence.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Sally Howard |Jimmy McIntosh |Sophie Elmhirst
Francisco Garcia joins in the celebrations. I’m a deeply sentimental and nostalgic creature, so Naples was always going to do it for me. It took less than half a day of a week-long solo trip last June for the city to have totally captured my affections. The sentimentality, the light, the baked-in drama to completing the most mundane of everyday tasks: it all seemed too perfect to be true. That first night, I’d taken myself to the Spanish Quarter without much of a plan.
