Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
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Time to welcome back some old friends?
Many of our largest native British species have become extinct over the centuries. PETER FROST asks if it’s time to bring some of them back
The European bison
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Editor BEN CHACKO looks at the invaluable contribution the paper makes, and the headwinds it has to struggle against to get by, following the Morning Star’s 80th AGM this month
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
The nationalisation move to Great British Railways (GBR) must be about more than just changing the livery, writes MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Activists will urge MPs to protect the five-year settlement route and cut visa costs, warning reforms risk deepening inequality and labour shortages, says HARSEV BAINS
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the issues of liberty, safety and risk in relation to people receiving psychiatric treatment
TODAY’S pub quiz question is what is Europe’s biggest land mammal? Give yourself a point if you went for the European bison or the European wood bison (Bison bonasus). Just half a point if you gave it one of its colloquial names such as the wisent, or the zubr.
This huge buffalo-like species can weigh up three-quarters of a ton. It isn’t the same species you see in cowboy films.
That one is the American bison (Bison bison). These are more usually known as buffalo. Actually buffalo and bison are two different types of animals.
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