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 man who wrote Tarka
PETER FROST tells the sinister story of Henry Williamson – otter enthusiast, fascist and Hitler admirer who wanted TE Lawrence to become Britain’s own Fuhrer
Henry Williamson by Charles Tunnicliffe
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 UK government intervenes 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
HENRY WILLIAMSON wrote his fine book Tarka the Otter in 1927. It made him both rich and famous, but there was another, much darker, side to this man for Williamson was a fascist, an admirer of Hitler and an enthusiastic supporter of Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts.
His writings between the wars were an odd mixture of wonderful descriptions of nature and paeans of praises of German national socialism. He was one of the first join Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
Williamson attended Adolf Hitler’s notorious Nuremberg rallies and met Hitler himself. Those meetings would lead to his greatest act of treason.
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