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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Gove must ban the hedgehog killer
May 6-12 is Hedgehog Awareness Week. PETER FROST reveals a new threat to one of Britain’s endangered species
A hedgehog, also known as a hedgepig or furze-pig
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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
WILL Environment Minister Michael Gove’s legacy to the nation, when the Tories are eventually thrown out of office, be the total elimination of our favourite wild animal?
We are talking about the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), which was crowned Britain’s national species in a BBC Wildlife magazine poll and Britain’s favourite mammal in another poll by the Royal Society of Biology. Will it become extinct on Gove’s watch?
In the early part of the last century, hedgehogs were really common throughout Britain, with an estimated population of perhaps 30 million in the 1950s.
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