Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Bringing beavers to west London
JOHN GREEN reports on rewilding attempts in the capital and beyond in order to give a boost to rare or endangered wildlife
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Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
IN AN attempt to counter the horrendous loss of wildlife as a result of population increase, urban spread and particularly the extensive use of intensive farming, there have been increasing calls for “rewilding.”
What does that term mean? Well, it involves an attempt to reintroduce animals and plants that used to be widespread but are today either extinct or facing extinction.
Can we, though, really bring back some of the diversity and variety of wildlife that our parents and grandparents knew or is it simply a utopian dream?
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