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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The bird that hatched environmentalism
Ramble along the towpath and through over a century of history with PETER FROST and a very elegant waterfowl
The great crested grebe sometimes carries its young on its back
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
LATE February or early March is the time to see one of the wonders of our waterside wildlife, and without any doubt the star of the feathered flotilla is the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Victorian milliners — hat-makers to you and me — and taxidermists slaughtered thousands of grebes, along with other birds, to harvest their beautiful feathers.
They were used in women’s hats of course but just as many were used in military uniforms, hat badges and adornments.
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