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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The Independent Group and Boris Johnson’s advertising agency
SOLOMON HUGHES reports on how Umunna et al spent a lot of money to win a 3% vote at the Euro elections
The Independent Group: (back row left to right) Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker, Chuka Umunna and Mike Gapes, (middle row, left to right) Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Ann Coffey, (front row, left to right) Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Joan Ryan
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 Independent Group for Change, the failed “centrist” party founded by Chuka Umunna et al, hired Boris Johnson’s former campaign team to help them choose candidates for the 2019 European election campaign.
This was the Independent Group for Change’s first electoral test: the new party failed that test, getting just 3.3 per cent of the vote.
Hiring Johnson’s staff and spending £886,681 on the campaign could not sell the new party to voters.
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