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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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
BRITAIN’S best-known luxury car may be best-known for carrying icons of the past. But Thunderbirds, it should be remembered, was set in the mid-2060s.
Now Eva Bolander (pictured), the SNP Lord Provost of Glasgow, will be ferried around the schemes of Strathclyde in a six-figure Rolls-Royce Ghost, “gifted” to the city council by an anonymous philanthropist. Very good, m’lady.
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