Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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the transmogrification from Butcher of Sabra to 'a man of peace'
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Did somebody say something? No?
Sorry, it's just that this column thought it had been suffering problems with its hearing of late. A kind of all-encompassing deafness followed by an annoying ringing in the ears that builds up to intolerable levels.
Then it realised that it was just the sound of blatant self-censorship by the bold members of the fourth estate quickly followed by the usual execrably hagiographic revisionism and the sound of thousands of eyes being nonchalantly averted from the glaring truth.
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