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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A netful of silver darlings from Frosty
In more misogynistic times it was said ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’ — PETER FROST proposes a new version: teach a family to fish and they will eat well. At least until pollution, plastic debris, global warming, floods, droughts and overfishing end it all
Salvelinus alpinus, better known as the Arctic char
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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
LET’S start with some good news. I have written many times about the demise of our native white-clawed chalk stream crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). These had been forced out of their habitat by American Red Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). These invaders had escaped from commercial crayfish farms.
Worse, these unwelcome US critters also carried a fatal crayfish pox that killed our natives but to which they were immune.
Recent surveys and river counts however, have shown that populations of native white-claws are doing much better, whereas the numbers of non-native crayfish are falling fast.
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