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With avian flu devastating our bird populations both wild and commercial, PETER FROST looks at feathered friends large and small
A gannet in flight
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Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
I’VE JUST spent a few days on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, a part of the country absolutely stuffed with egg, chicken, duck, goose — and at this time of year turkey production units.
Poultry is a long-established industry hereabouts. A century or more ago huge flocks of turkeys, geese and ducks would have their feet dipped in hot tar to make protective footwear for the over 100-mile walk to Leadenhall market in London. It was a hazardous journey. Today’s hazards seem even worse.
Everywhere we walked or drove we came across warning signs telling us to keep clear, to keep out and not to touch any birds dead or alive, wild or captive.
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