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Where have all the insects gone?
PETER FROST notices fewer bugs on his windscreen and decides to investigate
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
IF YOU drive a car you may well have noticed fewer insects splatted on your windscreen after a summer drive.
It is just one of the indications that British insects are finding it harder and harder to thrive.
Matt Shadlow, chief executive of British insect conservation charity Buglife, explains: “This is part of the wholesale loss of small animals in recent decades.
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