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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

February 6, 2026 by Carlos Hernández

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live
Carlos Hernández de Miguel in 2015. Photograph: Chernandezdemiguel

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth. Carlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026.

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Same-sex civil partnerships 20 years on: “We don’t just want the cake; we want the recipe, too. Equal slices for everyone, no exceptions.”

January 24, 2026 by Adnan Ali & Eric Stobbaerts

Eric and Adnan in Rio
Celebrating Iemanjá, Goddess of the Sea and Queen of the Ocean, Rio de Janeiro, January 2011. Photo: Courtesy of Eric Stobbaerts (left), and Adnan Ali (right).

It has been 20 years since the UK’s first same-sex civil unions took place on 19 December 2005. Adnan Ali and Eric Stobbaerts were one of the first gay couples in London to form a civil partnership on that historic day. They are both busy men with global lives. Unwritten Lives was glad to catch up with them in London, where the couple spoke with Ishtiyaq Shukri.

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