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
Frosty’s year in the country
PETER FROST points out some interesting countryside stories from the past twelve months
Malham Cove
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 term climate change might have replaced global warming but there is no doubt that the globe is getting warmer. Forest fires everywhere, but particularly in Australia, are just one sign.
I started 2020 as I do most years with a visit to the Fens, to Welney on the Ouse Washes. Every year thousands of swans fly here from the Arctic.
Ten thousand or more Whooper swans arrive from Greenland and up to 5,000 Berwick’s swans arrive from the Russian Arctic.
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