As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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The flu that killed more people than World War I
A recent visit to his doctor has PETER FROST recalling the influenza pandemic of 1918/20 that killed over 40 million people
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
WHILE at the doctors this week I came face to face with the nation wide cold-or-is-it-flu medical crisis. Our wonderful NHS has more than its fair share of challenges at the moment.
First the relentless chop, chop, chop of Tory Theresa and her Cabinet’s not so comic cuts, then the usual winter crop of icy slips, falls, infections and motley seasonal maladies and lastly the huge amount of common cold-or-flu snuffles that are dominating news broadcasts and headlines.
Talk in the waiting room was about the number of chest X-rays being ordered and antibiotics being prescribed or refused. The waiting room experts were keen to explain real flu was viral and therefore untouched by antibiotics.
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