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By Toby Flux At the end of May last year a 109-country conference discussing a ban on cluster munitions was deadlocked and heading for failure. The UK's objection to such a ban made it pointless, or even counter-productive, for their own…
Yesterday Nick Clegg became the first major party political figure to call for the scrapping of Trident, Britain's submarine based nuclear missile system. He rightly identified the fact that such weaponry is outdated and no longer meets our…
Before you read the rest of this post, consider this: Are there any circumstances whatsoever in which you would be prepared to have the deaths of hundreds of thousands people on your conscience? No one can deny that right now the public…
By James Mills What stunned me the most about this issue was the number of people whose status on my Facebook mini feed has declared support for the Gurkhas. People diametrically opposed politically supported this cause. Those who have a…
By Richard Lane Barack Obama this weekend used a speech in Prague to outline his ambitious goal of a nuclear weapon-free world. In his address President Obama conceded that such a vision would not be realised in his lifetime, but asserted…
By Ben Folley As European elections approach it is always interesting to note how Labour's sister parties are doing. The news that in the middle of its six month presidency of the European Union, the Czech Republic's conservative government…
By Tom Miller I am a fan of the SDLP, all-Ireland politics, the heritage of the civil rights movement, and a big fan of general opposition to terrorist violence from all quarters. I have no desire to keep the North of Ireland in the UK on a…
By Tom Miller Nationalisation of the commanding heights, nuclear disarmament... though I suspect it might not meet his total approval, Michael Foot must be somewhat pleased at some of the post-Blair developments in Labour's thinking…
