Giles Tremlett

Jun 13, 2024 | radiotimes.com | Giles Tremlett

To many, Bellingham remains an enigma. For a talented English youngster to leave his home country and perhaps not return until his best playing days are over is almost unthinkable. Yet when Bellingham moved from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid for €103 million last summer, it was, in his own words, “a no-brainer”. The policeman’s son from Stourbridge had grown up watching the storied Madrid club’s El Clásicos duels with Barcelona.

Jan 1, 2024 | transcend.org | Giles Tremlett

Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice. The last time Anatole Larrabeiti saw his parents, he was four years old. It was 26 September 1976, the day after his birthday.

Dec 26, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Giles Tremlett

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'-the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long.

Oct 13, 2023 | theguardian.com | Giles Tremlett

A decade after Maixabel Lasa’s husband was shot by Basque separatists, she received a message from one of his killers. He wanted to meet herThe Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work.

Sep 7, 2023 | theguardian.com | Giles Tremlett

Juan Mari Jáuregui normally slept soundly, but on the night of 28 July 2000 he was disturbed by a nightmare. “I dreamed they killed me,” he told his wife the next morning, as he left his house in the village of Legorreta, in Spain’s verdant Basque Country, to meet a friend for coffee. She told him not to worry. It was just a dream. Jáuregui was a big man – 6ft tall and 16 stone – with a voice and personality to match.