Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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I DROVE up to Suffolk few weeks ago. I love that most easterly county for all sorts of reasons but when I get there my usual first delight is the sight of fields full of free-range pigs.
Pigs are gentle creatures with surprising intelligence. Studies have found they’re cleverer than dogs and even children as old as three years.
In each fenced-off field division is a small corrugated hut — they call them arcs — a water trough, another for food and a large sow mother pig surrounded by her family of piglets. In a sunny summer they can get sunburnt.
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