SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
How to care for your cabbages over winter
Gardening with MAT COWARD
Cabbage leaves
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Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
THERE’S no such species as the cabbage white butterfly, though you wouldn’t know it from my garden where any brassicas left uncovered during the summer soon have their leaves skeletonised by caterpillars.
There are in fact two species, the large white and the small white, whose larvae cause such annoyance to veg growers.
By October these butterflies are disappearing from gardens, so there are no more eggs being laid on cabbages, purple sprouting broccoli, kale and the rest.
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