In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Dealing with ‘compost confusion’
Don't be put off by composting. It's as simple or complicated as you wish to make it, writes MATT COWARD
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
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THE old world is dying, as Comrade Gramsci memorably told us, and the new world struggles to be born — and one of the minor side-effects of this is that many people are turning to growing their own vegetables and fruit for the first time.
And many of them will at some stage hit the wall known to neophyte gardeners as “compost confusion.”
The first point to grasp is that the word compost is used to describe two different things. You can buy bags of compost from real or online garden shops. That’s used for sowing seeds into in small pots or trays, to be planted out when they’re bigger, or for filling up large pots and tubs which will be the permanent homes of plants.
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