As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
Latest editorial
2018 will bring new wildlife behaviour and species
PETER FROST records some of the new species and new habits of British wildlife as 2018 arrives
CLIMATE LOTTERY: (L to R) Barred grass snake, curled octopus and the whimbrel
[Pics: Snake: Bernard Dupont/Creative Commons; octopus: Comingio Merculiano /Creative Commons; whimbrel: Andreas Trepte/Creative Commons]
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
AS A new year opens, it is perhaps a good time to take stock of some of changes in Britain’s nature where climate change is just one major factor radically reshuffling wildlife.
Up and down the country some species are disappearing, but there is some good news too as new migrants and old friends return to make their home on our shores.
The climate changes are also causing wildlife to modify crucial timings of their lives.
Similar stories
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT