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Frosty’s year in the country
PETER FROST points out some interesting countryside stories from the past twelve months
Malham Cove
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
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE term climate change might have replaced global warming but there is no doubt that the globe is getting warmer. Forest fires everywhere, but particularly in Australia, are just one sign.
I started 2020 as I do most years with a visit to the Fens, to Welney on the Ouse Washes. Every year thousands of swans fly here from the Arctic.
Ten thousand or more Whooper swans arrive from Greenland and up to 5,000 Berwick’s swans arrive from the Russian Arctic.
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