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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Breeding ospreys move south
PETER FROST has been to Poole harbour to welcome some returning, if scruffy, strangers
An osprey hunting for prey
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
THEY looked for all the world like four fluffy Spitting Image puppets of our esteemed Prime Minister. The same white tousled uncombed hair atop a pair of sharp eyes and a cruel mouth — or in this case sharp, hooked beak.
These just hatched chicks were getting more oohs and aahs than our idiot Prime Minister gets except from female Tory-thinking, promotion-seeking admirers at an illegal Downing Street party.
These chicks were, in fact, the first ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) to be born on England’s south coast for two centuries. The four chicks had hatched from eggs brought to their Poole harbour nest from sustainable nests further north.
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