Guest blog: Ban Ki-moon says ‘Keep it up!’
Written by Sara Medi Jones Guest blog from Dawn Rothwell, CND Campaigns Officer, at the NPT Review Conference in New York 1st May...
Local diversions
Written by Kate Hudson Getting beyond the hype of the leaders’ debates, local hustings offer a snapshot of on-the-ground views. They also show that...
What the Americans say
US coverage of the election is now touching on Trident. In yesterday’s Huffington Post (a ‘liberal’ news website often abbreviated to HuffPo), Azeem Ibrahim attacked the...
Marr gets carried away
Andrew Marr tried to run rings round Nick Clegg yesterday, on the subject of Trident. Questioning Clegg on his BBC TV show, Marr asked:...
Getting real on Trident
Whatever Gordon Brown’s rhetoric on the need for nuclear weapons, the reality is that Trident is now a major issue in the general election. Not...
Generals on the march
Military top brass are now lending their weight to the anti-Trident debate. In today’s Times, four senior figures argue forcefully that Britain’s nuclear weapons should...
Election latest: troops out of Afghanistan?
Written by Kate Hudson Not likely, is the answer to that question, in spite of majority public opinion in favour of bringing the troops...
Election latest: no change from Tories
Written by Kate Hudson Despite the Conservative electoral slogan being ‘It’s time for a change’, there is no change in their manifesto on Trident....
Labour manifesto: no change on Trident
Written by Kate Hudson Another disappointment from Labour on the Trident front. Today’s manifesto says that ‘A Strategic Defence Review will look at all...
Election latest: LibDem debates
Written by Kate Hudson Discussion of the LibDem position on Trident still rumbles on. First of all, hats off to Martin Veart, who with other...