The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
Housing crisis in Cornwall
The most south-westerly region of Britain — remote, windswept and an area of staggering natural beauty — is being purged of its local working-class population, writes DAWN EVANS
The fishing village of Mevagissey, Cornwall
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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
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HAVING lived in the far south-west of Cornwall for 50 years, I have first-hand experience of the insecure housing situation that the working-class community here has always struggled with.
This is mainly the result very low wages, insufficient social housing, and very short-term winter-let contracts in the private housing sector; which allow private landlords and agents to cash in on premium rents from tourists during the summer season.
The situation has always been bad. But shortly after the Covid lockdown began in early 2020, the ensuing avalanche of wealthy people fleeing urban environments for spacious, rural idylls took everyone by surprise.
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