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Nothing glorious about grouse moor murders
PETER FROST joins broadcaster Chris Packham and Labour’s shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman MP on the grouse moors
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
JUST one week after the far from Glorious Twelfth, when every toff and every rich spiv wannabe toff dons his tweeds and picks up his shotgun and heads for moors, the real truth behind this bloody slaughter has been played out at Jedburgh law courts.
Not only are half a million red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) blasted out of the sky during the grouse season, but hundreds of thousands of other wild animals and birds are murdered by gamekeepers and others at the bidding of the grouse moor owners.
Alan Wilson, one of those gamekeepers, pleaded guilty last week at Jedburgh to nine offences involving using guns, illegal snares and the highly toxic and illegal pesticide carbofuran to kill all sorts of protected and unprotected wildlife.
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