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  • 6 Jul 2010
    Review of Trident costs to be rushed through in weeks

    The Defence Secretary has admitted that the “value-for-money” review of Trident will be completed by the end of July, provoking suspicion that he is only going through the motions.

  • 28 Jun 2010
    Benefit cuts and cheap headlines

    Around the time that Norman Tebbit made his famous comments about unemployed people getting on their bikes, my father was doing just that.

  • 27 Jun 2010
    Cutting services, funding war

    David Cameron has tried to use Armed Forces Day to whip up support for the unpopular war in Afghanistan, but the ruinous cost of ineffective military spending is clearly at odds with his government's rhetoric about the urgent need for cuts.

  • 24 Jun 2010
    Lib Dem minister rules out alternatives to Trident

    The Lib Dem defence minister, Nick Harvey, has confirmed that the coalition government will go ahead with like-for-like replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system without considering alternatives.

  • 10 Jun 2010
    Lib Dem MPs vote 'against own policy' on Trident

    The Liberal Democrats have been accused of voting “against their own policy” after opposing a motion to include the Trident nuclear weapons system in the Strategic Defence Review.

  • 8 Jun 2010
    Cameron's cuts: We're not all in this together

    David Cameron has said the government's massive cuts will be delivered in a way that “strengthens and unites the country”. His words remind me of his colleague's George Osborne's claim that, when it comes to tackling the economic situation, “we're all in this together”.

  • 2 Jun 2010
    New MPs unite to lobby coalition over nuclear arms

    The coalition government will come under pressure on nuclear weapons today, as a number of new MPs from different parties visit Downing Street to call for government action on disarmament.

  • 27 May 2010
    Christian peace activist targeted as government promotes 'freedom to protest'

    The Mayor of London has begun legal proceedings to have the Christian peace activist Brian Haw forcibly removed from Parliament Square.

  • 22 May 2010
    Ministers urged to include Trident in Defence Review

    Pressure is growing on defence ministers, who appear to have ruled out including Trident in their strategic review. The Lib Dems have been accused of accepting Tory policy on the issue.

  • 18 May 2010
    Coalition under pressure over access to higher education

    The Vice-Chancellors of the UK's leading universities have triggered a negative reaction by calling on the new government to lift the cap on tuition fees.