Latest editorial
Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
THE Tories have failed to make the case for the renewal of Trident, shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry said yesterday before a once-in-a-generation vote on Britain’s nuclear weapons.
The government is fully signed-up to the replacement of four nuclear submarines despite the costs soaring to a staggering £205 billion.
David Cameron is expected to put the decision to Parliament this summer in a bid to reunite his party after the fractious EU referendum campaign.
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’
