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
Lions, donkeys and a Suffolk Anglo-Saxon king
PETER FROST introduces the man responsible for Britain’s greatest-ever archaeological discovery but who got no credit for it
(Left to right) Archaelogist Basil Brown, who led the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo; a replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet, widely believed to have belonged to King Raedwald, and the 1939 excavation of a burial ship from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo
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
THE minor but pushy aristocracy of Britain are a snobby lot who believe they have some God-given right to rule the land.
One way they try to enshrine that right is by sending their male children — and today females too — to schools where they can learn to spout a few phrases of Latin and adopt an enormous, if totally unjustified, self-confidence.
(Who can he mean? Can’t think of anybody in an important position today who exhibits that particular bundle of characteristics, can you?)
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