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It’s a dog’s life
PETER FROST proves to be a pedigree chum to pet dogs, as well as feral dogs, foxes and even wolves
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
THE pandemic has had many strange effects on life in Britain. One is the huge jump in the demand for dogs as pets to combat loneliness.
There are almost 10 million pet dogs in Britain. This means the price of dogs has increased dramatically, as has dog theft.
My grandson, who hopes to have a pet dachshund later in life, told me last week the price of all dogs, especially those little German sausage dogs, were rocketing.
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