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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A whale in the Windrush’s wake
PETER FROST sees the whale in the Thames as just part of a much bigger issue
A beluga whale swimming in the Thames near Gravesend, Kent
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
SEVENTY years ago in June 1948 at Tilbury the steamship Empire Windrush landed some 500 hopeful settlers from Kingston, Jamaica.
This week Tilbury, now one of London’s busiest docks, welcomed yet another exotic visitor.
A large white whale, an Arctic beluga, was seen feeding around barges on the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury. After the whale was spotted by an early morning bird watcher, experts soon decided that the white body, absence of dorsal fin and bulbous forehead indicated that it was a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas).
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