The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL

A searing scrutiny hearing has uncovered thousands of undelivered appointments, vanishing data and a system in chaos – galvanising councillors, patients and activists to demand urgent reform and an NHS dentist for all, writes SIMON BRIGNELL

Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL

Hundreds of critical support posts are facing the axe at Cambridge’s Addenbrooke’s Hospital in a top-down imposition, reports SIMON BRIGNELL

Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit