The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
Militarism should not be glamorised in our schools
SYMON HILL, of the Peace Pledge Union, warns of growing alarm over military visits to schools, which encourage and normalise war and support for it among young people
A child plays with a gun at an Armed Forces Day event
Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD
MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
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IN 2019, the Facebook page of a children’s nursery in Lincolnshire featured photos of small children wearing real military body armour.
The nursery had been visited by a soldier who had talked to the children and invited them to try on his helmet and parts of his uniform.
These children, barely older than toddlers, had not been given any sense of what happens to human bodies and minds in war. They had been taught to associate uniforms and military equipment with fun and excitement.
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