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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Beware: spying Beluga whales about!
A Beluga whale has turned up in the Norwegian fishing fleet. PETER FROST reminds us of the history of fighting whales and a Thames visitor
An NMMP ( Navy Marine Mammal Program) sea lion attaches a recovery line to a piece of test equipment during training
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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
The history of using whales in war is long and shocking. Like other evil weapons of war it was the Brits — that’s you and me I’m afraid — that invented it.
Like concentration camps, guided missiles and several hundred other dastardly ways to win a war.
We started in the first world war training zoo-bred sea lions. The navy took them to Lake Bala in Wales to try to train them to find German submarines. They were quick learners, these intelligent sea lions. So intelligent, in fact, that when they were released into the sea they located large schools of herring and mackerel which they ate all day.
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