The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY

SIXTY-FIVE years ago today, thousands of marchers arrived at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, protesting against the British nuclear bomb being built there.
These marchers were in at the start of a mass movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was to transform the very nature of protest and shape social movements for decades to come.
The world into which CND emerged was changing rapidly. The colonial empires were being dismantled as national liberation movements achieved the independence of their countries. European colonial power in Asia was ending.

The protests against the US presidential visit are over, but the public probably doesn’t know that new US nuclear bombs are now stationed here, putting us all in danger — we have to raise awareness and get them out, writes CND’s KATE HUDSON


