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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SOLOMON HUGHES asks: does the new ‘free marketeer’ Business Secretary’s appointment mean the PM is abandoning his tilt to the former ‘red wall’?
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
THE first time I saw the Kwasi Kwarteng speak, he was telling an audience of Tory Party members that Britain needed to slash taxes back to “pre-war” levels.
The war he meant was World War I. Now he is business secretary.
If a Cabinet minister wants to cut government back to pre-NHS days, what does that mean for Boris Johnson’s “levelling-up” agenda?
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