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The bird that hatched environmentalism
Ramble along the towpath and through over a century of history with PETER FROST and a very elegant waterfowl
The great crested grebe sometimes carries its young on its back
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
LATE February or early March is the time to see one of the wonders of our waterside wildlife, and without any doubt the star of the feathered flotilla is the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Victorian milliners — hat-makers to you and me — and taxidermists slaughtered thousands of grebes, along with other birds, to harvest their beautiful feathers.
They were used in women’s hats of course but just as many were used in military uniforms, hat badges and adornments.
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