The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
Storm Bert: forgotten Welsh towns drown in neglect
As waters rise and defences fail, working-class communities abandoned by Westminster face nature’s fury while in a bitterly ironic turn, the descendants of miners pay the price for the legacy fossil fuels, writes GUTO DAVIES
SUBMERGED: Firefighters pump water from Sion Street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd, November 24
Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD
MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
DR STEPHEN WILKINSON assesses the life and legacy of a revolutionary giant
ON the morning of Sunday November 24 this year, the village in which I live, Trehafod, was under siege from a rising tide of water.
Following the worst of Storm Bert through the night, the only roads into Trehafod from north and south, along with the railway line, were all closed due to flooding.
In the meantime, the river Rhondda to the west was rising at an alarming rate, while to the east, culverts were gushing fiercely down the rocky mountainside. The village felt like a perilous place to be, with no escape route.
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