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Welcome back to Britain’s tallest bird
One of Britain’s biggest, certainly its tallest, bird is again establishing many sustainable wetland populations, says PETER FROST
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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
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
CRANES were once a common bird on most of Britain’s wetlands. But that was 400 years ago.
They were driven to extinction as we drained their wetland homes and hunted them for food.
One indication of just how common cranes were is indicated by hundreds of English place names with the prefix “Cran” such as Cranfield, Cranford, Cranbrook and Cranmore.
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