Portugal’s last anti Salazar guerrilla and the left rising to power. Dennis Redmont on Politico Europe.
Dennis Redmont The old fights of Lisbon’s new left – POLITICO
2023
Portinglês: Navigating the Quirks of Portuguese-English Interchange
Associated or Assossiated? Organization or Organezation? Found or fund? The answer to these questions is encapsulated in one word: Portinglês, the problems of Portuguese-English and vice versa. Although Portuguese people…
Words under siege: The power of language in war reporting
Covering a war requires great care in the choice of words and expressions. Language can be a minefield with many pitfalls that jeopardize journalists’ impartiality. A poorly chosen word in…
A Man Who Always Gets Lucky Twice
“A Man Who Always Gets Lucky Twice.” This is the title of my second episode of Palavras Cruzadas, RTP’s radio program hosted by Dalila Carvalho, focused on the choice and…
More than 50 years of papal visits to Portugal: my analysis
I was a guest on Portugal’s leading news network, SIC Noticias. It was a unique opportunity to analyze more than 50 years of papal visits to Portugal, which I have…
Tribute to Henry Kamm
Portugal honors the memory of the New York Times correspondent who passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 98, Henry Kamm, one of my mentors from the…
New Lisbon Casino Conferences – 2023 Cycle What is at stake?
A century and a half ago, a group of leading Portuguese thinkers decided to conduct a series of conferences on major issues that challenged the world at the end of…
1965. Lisbon. The PIDE, Soares, three women and a dictator.
When I arrived in the sleepy, romantic city of Lisbon in 1965, at the age of 23, for my first foreign assignment, I never thought that one day the national…
10 years as a member of the TEDx Rome Advisory Board
I have been a member of the TEDx Rome Advisory Board for ten years. Find out more about my background and the composition of the team here.