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Gove must ban the hedgehog killer
May 6-12 is Hedgehog Awareness Week. PETER FROST reveals a new threat to one of Britain’s endangered species
A hedgehog, also known as a hedgepig or furze-pig
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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
WILL Environment Minister Michael Gove’s legacy to the nation, when the Tories are eventually thrown out of office, be the total elimination of our favourite wild animal?
We are talking about the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), which was crowned Britain’s national species in a BBC Wildlife magazine poll and Britain’s favourite mammal in another poll by the Royal Society of Biology. Will it become extinct on Gove’s watch?
In the early part of the last century, hedgehogs were really common throughout Britain, with an estimated population of perhaps 30 million in the 1950s.
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