Portugal tightens naturalisation rules, doubles residency requirement reuters.com/world/americas…

Barbados poet laureate on mission to share stories of enslavement theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

How Lisbon put itself on the map for real estate and tourism – and became Europe’s least affordable city theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice from the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth nations, on the issue of slavery reparations. reuters.com/world/uk/jamai…

Jamaica to take fight for slavery reparations to King Charles reuters.com/world/uk/jamai…

UK's Starmer offers concessions on welfare cuts to quell Labour revolt reuters.com/world/uk/uks-s…

Black children arrested in London ‘15% more likely to be criminalised’ than white children theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

A 70yo Windrush scandal victim who lost his job & his home says he has been awarded £00.00 from the Home Office’s compensation scheme after requesting a review 3 times. Latest figures show that a shocking 64% of Windrush claimants have been denied a payout melissasigodothesource.substack.com/p/more-than-ha…

Luxury fashion powerhouse Prada has acknowledged the ancient Indian roots of its new sandal design after the debut of the open-toe footwear sparked a furore among Indian artisans and politicians thousands of miles from the catwalk in Italy reuters.com/world/india/sa…

UK campaign group Palestine Action to challenge government ban reuters.com/business/aeros…

Azulejos do Miradouro de Santa Luzia, dos mais icónicos de Lisboa, estão a desaparecer publico.pt/2025/06/30/loc…

Algarve sunsets ❤️

A Caribbean delegation is in Brussels today to hold a briefing with EU 🇪🇺 lawmakers on slavery #reparations reuters.com/world/africa/c…

A new survey published today showed that in #Angola 58% of respondents want #Portugal to return artifacts taken from its former colonies. Support was higher in #CapeVerde at 63%. reuters.com/world/africa/a…

Portugal really stands out in house price data. This is the increase in the OECD's real house price index, which strips out inflation, since end of 2007. I've added US (red) and OECD average (yellow) for comparison

"The Yoorrook Justice Commission found violence and disease reduced the local Indigenous population by three quarters in the 20 years after the state was colonised, in the early 1830s." bbc.com/news/articles/…

Four pro-Palestinian activists charged over UK military base break-in reuters.com/business/aeros…

MADRID, July 3 (Reuters) - Liverpool's Portuguese forward Diogo Jota died in car crash near Zamora, in northwestern Spain, Spanish state-owned TV station said on Thursday, citing local firefighters.

New Jersey’s sordid history of slavery and racial discrimination revealed in activists’ calls for reparations before U.S. Independence Day Ark Republic arkrepublic.com/2025/07/03/new…

Lawmakers backed Jennifer Simons as Suriname’s first woman president, setting the doctor and former speaker on course to helm a nation on the cusp of a predicted oil boom. "I do not need many words. My thanks and we will get to work,” she said. reuters.com/world/suriname…