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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Tory Northamptonshire owes over a billion but that didn’t stop it spending
PETER FROST updates the financial reports from his own local Tory council
Northamptonshire County Council HQ
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
Early this year I brought you the news that all seven of Northamptonshire’s Tory MPs had attacked the Tory administration of Northampton County Council (NCC). They had lost faith in their political bedfellows on the council
In response, then council leader Heather Smith told BBC Look East that it had warned the government as early as 2013-14 that the level of funding was unsustainable.
The MPs included several high-ranking government ministers who said the local Tory administration was to blame, not the government. It became a real Tory versus Tory catfight.
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