Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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PETER FROST has been out with the hunt
Anti-hunt campaigners outside the National Trust AGM at the Steam Museum in Swindon, where National Trust members have narrowly voted down a proposal to ban legal hunting on the organisation's land
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
We all know that Prime Minister Theresa May has always been in favour of fox-hunting because she has often told us so.
In return, no less than 84 per cent of the British public have told her and other hunting fans in Westminster that they do not agree with those outdated opinions.
Overwhelmingly the general public wants Labour’s 2004 ban of hunting with dogs to stay firmly in place.
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