The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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Callous Tory cuts leaving ever-growing numbers on the streets
The homelessness scandal is deepening and a national disgrace, writes MATT WILLGRESS
In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear
In the fourth and final part of our serialisation from LINDA PENTZ GUNTER’S book No to Nuclear, she asks how anyone can see nuclear as value for money given its constantly ballooning costs
Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. The world of abundance he predicts actually spells the end of the capitalist system, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves
Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here
SOME 135,000 children will be homeless this Christmas, according to research by the housing charity Shelter, which calculates that another child becomes homeless in Britain every eight minutes.
Official figures also show that the number of people sleeping on our streets has more than doubled since 2010 to almost 5,000 people on any given night.
Shockingly, and in a stark illustration of Tory Britain today, the number of people dying homeless has risen by more than half in the last five years to 726 last year.
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