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DSEI is at last becoming seen as unacceptable
It’s important we keep up the pressure and expose the arms fair in London’s Docklands for what it is – a market in death, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Work on display at the Art the Arms Fair art exhibition, to oppose DSEI
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STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
HAS anything changed with the DSEI arms exhibition over the past 20 years, aside from it getting bigger?
There has been much controversy surrounding the recent Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair at the ExCel centre in London.
Condemnation of the event has come from a number of quarters, including the mayor of London and faith leaders.
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