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Giants of British wildlife
Would you believe we have wild mammals in Britain much bigger than elephants? PETER FROST explains
The body of the Sperm Whale washed up at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland in October 2019
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
CHECK the internet for Britain’s heaviest mammal and the answer will be the red deer. A fully grown healthy stag might weigh in at a quarter of a ton (250kg). Compare that with an African elephant that can weigh up to six tons.
Now marvel at the young – far from fully grown – sperm whale that washed up last week on a beach in north Norfolk. Best estimates reckon that it weighed in at 10 times as much as a bull elephant.
At nearly 60 tons that makes this British wild species one of the heaviest animals in the world. Only the blue whale – reaching up to 200 tons – and a couple of other whale species are heavier.
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