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Photo by Jayel Aheram The latest world military expenditure figures show that spending is an enormous $1.75 trillion. One of the nations continuing to spend the most is the UK, which plans to spend £38 billion in 2014/15. This shows the backwards priorities of a government that is
Who are the best people to teach children about science? You may say world renowned experts and professors, like Steven Hawking or Brian Cox, but you are unlikely to say opportunistic and repressive arms companies like Selex ES. Selex ES is a major arms company that makes surveillance systems, weapon control systems
“Social reforms which involve expenditure are at a standstill; we are making drastic cuts in the supplies for education and for housing; our hospitals are seriously embarrassed; our industries are crippled; our unemployed number more than 1,500,000, and yet in the last financial year we spent more than 23 million upon armaments. No wonder the
The government spends thirty times more on weapons research than tackling climate change. Investing in renewable energy could provide more and better engineering jobs in a sector that supports people's well-being, not death and destruction. But the UK government continue to waste public money on the arms trade. It's time for this to change.
'Rabbit brained louts' is what the Daily Express called 'Young Oxford'; the Oxford Union debating society students who in February 1933 voted by a large majority of 122 that 'this house will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country'. © Imperial War Museum, recruitment poster 1914, by artist
If the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has his way there will be water cannons on the streets of London by this summer. When the Mayor announced his support for plans to allow the Metropolitan Police to use water cannon in the capital it came despite widespread public opposition. Johnson's own consultation
Sylvia Boyes outside court with supporters Yesterday CAAT supporter and anti-arms trade campaigner Sylvia Boyes was convicted for "obstructing the highway" during a protest at a the DSEI arms fair in London last September. Over the last few weeks a number of activists have either been found not guilty or
Prince Charles joined Saudi Arabia's autocratic rulers in a ceremonial sword dance. Saudi Arabia executed more than 70 people last year, mostly by public decapitation with a sword. Image: AFP/Getty This week Prince Charles flew to Saudi Arabia and danced for
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