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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Winkle out a treat for your palate this spring
PETER FROST comes out of his shell with some sustainable and delicious British shellfish you should eat
Washing and sorting the freshly cought whelks ready for cooking at Whitstable Harbour, Kent
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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
CHATTING to a young (well, if 34 counts as young) mate recently, I don’t know who looked more horrified. Him at hearing I had never played a video game, or me at discovering he had never eaten or even heard of a winkle.
I’ll leave him to write about video games but use my space this week to praise the humble and much underrated — but sustainable — delicacy that is the winkle and a few of its close relatives among the shellfish of old England.
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