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PLAYING conkers is in “serious decline” and the traditional children’s pastime may disappear within the next 20 years “unless a new generation of players is found,” campaigners warned today.
The Campaign for Real Conkers said there was no shortage of conkers, “as a cursory look at conker [horse chestnut] trees will show,” but there was a serious shortage of players.
The campaign maintains that the game of conkers is worth preserving as it is a free activity that anyone can play, so long as they have access to “a conker and some string.”
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land
ROGER McKENZIE looks at the gradual demise of US’s nefarious influence around the world and the complexity of impending freedom