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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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
BREXIT’S impasse has become all-pervasive. It isn’t to decry the importance of the issue, however, to point out that just down the road from Labour’s Brighton conference venue in Lewes, where I live, schools being threatened with forced academisation has precious little to do with whether we stay in the EU or not.
Nor is it to do with the EU that head teachers, wrongly in my view, have been driven to this most desperate of measures because of the chronic lack of resources all primary schools now face.
Lewes is a small market town of 16,000 persons. Unless Brighton and Hove Albion are at home or it’s our annual bonfire, there is no permanent uniformed police presence, the police station has been closed and turned into a glorified phone box.
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