Ever resilient, farmers nonetheless need help to be ...

Love Big Issue and Lou, I think, who sold me the mag at St Paul’s station is a nice guy. Here’s a picture (above) that I took last week from my narrow boat on the River Lea where I have recently moved

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

GLOBAL politics continues to fragment and become more ...

PICTURES: ALAMY; GETTY IMAGES; LAWRENCE LOOI; JAMIE SMART ...

Joe Stanley reflects on the ups and downs of the farming year past and looks forward to the one ahead