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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Hanging on the coat-tails of ‘Tommy Robinson’
Raheem Kassam, former chief advisor to UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, on stage during a Free Tommy Robinson and Pro-Trump joint rally Whitehall, London
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
RAHEEM KASSAM has become one of the spokesmen for the “Free Tommy” movement and that’s a bad sign.
That’s not because Kassam is a super-effective player on the right — most of his projects have crashed and burnt or sputtered along — but because Kassam is a wannabe and an opportunist.
And if the latest hard-right project is attracting careerists as well as ideologues, that’s a sign something is happening.
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