Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
IT SEEMS incredible even to me, that it was just over six years ago that I first wrote about the potential of using beavers to calm and slow some British rivers.
In a sense it started in 2008 with some very naughty girls or boys who smuggled a few of the remarkable beasts into a section of the River Otter near the village of Ottery St Mary in Devon.
It was believed to be the first wild and free population of beavers in the English countryside for over 500 years, although various wildlife trusts and other groups had established some enclosed captive beaver populations mostly in Scotland.
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON



