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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Freemasons are meeting in the Houses of Parliament. How big a threat is that to our democracy?
PETER FROST openly rolls up a trouser leg and proffers a dodgy handshake to our readers as he shares a secret or two
The Duke of Kent attending the Freemasons VC Memorial unveiling event outside the Freemasons’ Hall building in Covent Garden, London
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
When the Guardian published an article recently revealing that two secret Freemasons’ lodges were operating in the Palace of Westminster, it caused the predictable furore.
The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), the ruling body for Masons, even went as far as taking full page adverts in many newspapers protesting that these exposures of Masonic secrets were an attack on the human rights and privacy of Freemasons.
UGLE chief executive David Staples made statements to anyone in the media who would listen but didn’t actually give many, indeed any, secrets away.
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