Tories set to delay Trident vote
Labour has accused Michael Fallon of “playing games” over Britain’s security after it emerged the Commons vote on Trident…
Nuclear
Labour’s lack of ambition on global disarmament
Ed Miliband has been regularly questioned by party members and the public since being elected leader about why…
HS2 and Trident should not be grand projects when there is a grand housing crisis
“Follow the money”, they say in detective stories. Apply your inner Sherlock to the government’s grand projects in…
Why Britain should be proud of Baroness Ashton
The historic nuclear weapons deal reached with Iran is the result of years of diplomacy, dialogue and determination…
Who trusts Cameron to keep the lights on?
So Britain’s first major nuclear power station construction in a generation – at Hinckley – is to come…
Nuclear power is not the only answer – but it’s an important part of our future
Since Ed Miliband’s announcement of an energy price freeze while we reset the market, energy policy has rarely…
Trident isn’t a simplistic ‘for or against’ debate
Nuclear weapons are a divisive issue. In fact, in the current debate over whether or not the UK…
The UK’s independent nuclear deterrent: the case against renewal
At the end of October Polly Toynbee wrote a piece in the Guardian which has reopened the debate…
Labour risks being left behind on nuclear disarmament
Labour risks being left behind on nuclear disarmament as recent media coverage reports that senior government figures and serving…
The new Cold War warms up in Iran
One thing I sometimes forget is that people born before, say, 1980, didn’t really grow up, like I…
