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
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Is this Britain’s most dangerous estate?
It’s probably better to keep clear of this estate with a dangerous history of death and disaster says PETER FROST
Scene of the crime: The site near Sandringham where the prince consort ploughed into a smaller car containing two women and a baby
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 UK government intervenes 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
YOU cannot turn on the TV without viewing life and death on an estate. Either the real news or some cop drama will show violence played out against the background of an estate. That’s why I decided to visit one of them to see if estate life was really as bad as painted.
That TV image wasn’t wrong. As I arrived the first thing I saw was a dark Land Rover Freelander on its side. Locals told me the car belonged to the Big Fella who seemed to be head honcho of the estate.
Just two days later things got really bloody. Innocent Patrick Panks drove onto the estate only to be told to “Fuck off you peasant” by a gang of men with guns and dogs who had blocked the road. One of the men — a gamekeeper — broke a stick over Patrick’s head leaving him bleeding.
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