Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
The continuous threat of nuclear accidents
The recent nuclear accident in Russia was a sharp reminder of how volatile nuclear material can be whether for weapons use or producing power, writes STEVEN WALKER
PROTEST AND SURVIVE: Protest against nuclear power in Cologne, Germany on 26 March 2011
[Pic: Bundnis 90/Die Grunen Nordrhein-Westfalen/Creative Commons] 
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
THE recent nuclear accident at Severodvinsk in Russia which killed at least five nuclear experts and increased local radiation levels was a reminder of how volatile nuclear material can be whether for weapons use or producing power.
The incident occurred with grim irony on August 8, exactly between the first atomic bomb drops on Japanese civilian populations by the US during World War II 74 years ago.
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of people instantly and causing tens of thousands of cancer deaths in later years.
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