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Celebrity chefs versus eel, pie, mash and liquor
PETER FROST visits Suffolk in search of good food
A moray eel
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
I SPENT the roasting August bank holiday weekend in Suffolk visiting my cousin Laurie and his wife Donna who live just outside of the beautiful ancient wool town of Bury St Edmunds.
Bury is rich both with magnificent ancient religious buildings and more modern cathedrals of food and drink.
As you turn off the A14, your arrival is dominated by the huge and often sickly-sweet steaming British Sugar beet processing works. It turns East Anglia’s beet harvest into all kinds of sugars.
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