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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Collapsing male fertility: not enough seed to spill?
Is the future of the human race in danger from lack of sperm? PETER FROST reads a worrying new report
DIMINISHING RETURNS: Human sperm recorded using an optical microscopy technique, 3000x magnification for A4 picture format
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As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
IS it men who are to be the harbingers of the end of humanity as we know it? Before any readers hurry to email me saying I should have started that question “is it women and men who...” sorry you are premature (a word for reasons that will become clear I shall try to avoid in the rest of this article).
It is men only who are causing a potential disaster for the whole of the human species, although women and particularly babies — some as yet unborn — are certainly going to suffer too.
Quite simply, all across the world human male testicular equipment is falling down on the job and failing to produce enough live, fast swimming, go-for-it-lad sperm.
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New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
