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Zionists, zebras, giant tortoises and edible mice
PETER FROST remembers a man who should have much on his conscience both for the way the zionist Israeli state treats Palestinians today and letting noisy mice into Frosty’s loft
ZIONIST ODDBALL: Rothschild with his famed zebra carriage
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While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
IN MANY ways Baron Walter Rothschild was your typical Tory MP. Very rich indeed, never married, but had at least two long-term mistresses and at least one illegitimate daughter.
He retired from his family bank aged 40 to concentrate on politics, zoos and zionism.
His overwhelming interest was zoology and he toured the world observing and collecting wild animals many of which he brought back to his private zoo and museum at Tring Park in Hertfordshire.
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