As the country marks 50 years since the end of fascism, people celebrate the coup’s legacy but say the fight must continue At 4am on 25 April 1974, Filipe Villard Cortez got the signal. He barricaded the door of the Monte Real air base commander’s room and cut his phone line. A few hours earlier,…

Stretch of King Charles III path on Isle of Wight held up over concerns about crown’s ‘priceless collection’ The long-awaited completion of the 2,704-mile King Charles III coastal path around England is being held up by security concerns about a collection of Queen Victoria’s belongings in the seaside grounds of a former royal palace. English…

Finance chiefs say higher taxes for the super-rich are key to battling global inequality and climate crisis Billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers When the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund convened for the spring meetings last week, it was all about the really big questions. What…

Green Finance Institute report said further pollution could cut 12% off GDP by 2030s The destruction of nature over the rest of the decade could trigger a bigger economic slump in Britain than those caused by the 2008 global financial crisis and the Covid pandemic, experts have warned. Sounding the alarm over the rising financial…

Our capital has many problems, but it is time to push back against attacks from those who neither know nor understand it I have been reading about the most abysmal place. It is a land where children, red-faced with their own radicalism, march alongside bearded Islamists to make the streets a no-go zone, while nodding-dog…

And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a wheelchair-using Rapunzel: classic European fairytales have been reimagined in a new anthropology of stories written by south Asian women with disabilities. “When…