Peace & Disarmament Group Updates

Get active

Meet. Talk. Campaign. Have fun. Get results.

Peace & Disarmament Group updates

They're not just bad for the nation, they're also bad for themselves

I read this article about the number of potential crashes of nuclear submarines. Clearly if such a thing happened then it could result in an environmental...

April 08 at 01:56pm

Comments

Small Change

Arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, that's what I thought of when I read this blog post: http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/04/tory-vat-...

April 08 at 01:38pm

Comments

Scrapping Trident is a vote winner

Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, has written an opinion piece in the Guardian pointing out that a substantial majority of the...

April 08 at 10:38am

Comments

Obama making all the right noises

"Barack Obama says he will not use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have a nuclear capability - even if they launch a chemical or biological...

April 07 at 05:22pm

Comments

How would you raise £6 billion?

The Guardian is debating the issue of increases in National Insurance or VAT, which is proving to be one of the early economic battlegrounds of the election...

April 07 at 10:57am

Comments

Election keeps Brown away from April nuclear summit

The other Miliband (David) is going along instead. Will Labour survive? Will Gordon survive? Only time will tell. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/...

April 07 at 08:22am

Comments

Progress from the White House but what of the loopholes?

The author looks at the "wriggle room" and commentators doubt that Britain will go down the route of a "sole purpose" declaration. ...

April 06 at 08:45pm

Comments

Having it both ways?

It's probably only the news about the dissolution of Parliament and the coming General Election that is keeping Obama's review of the USA's nuclear posture...

April 06 at 06:42pm

Comments

New US Nuclear Posture Review now published

The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review, which will set the administration's nuclear weapons policies for the rest of Obama's presidency, has just...

April 06 at 04:04pm

Comments

lib dems release nuclear weapons paper

on saturday the lib dems rather quietly snuck out their review of where next for britain's nuclear weapons - check it out at http://www.libdems.org.uk/...

April 06 at 02:18pm

Comments

"He didn't seem to care less"

Letter of apology from Gordon Brown to a highly decorated soldier, after his complaint of a 'disrespectful' of the Prime Minister's behaviour during an...

April 06 at 12:04pm

Comments

Obama, yes he does

This is the kind of thing that would be good to hear coming from David, Gordon and Nick over the next few weeks: "the new strategy would...

April 06 at 09:37am

Comments

Election 2010: why the main parties won't be mentioning Trident

None of the main parties will want to mention Trident during the election campaign. Read why - and what you can do about it!

April 05 at 11:47am

Comments

Wishing you a peaceful Easter!

Scottish Clergy Against Nuclear Arms (SCANA) held a Communion Service in the middle of a blockade of the Trident nuclear weapons base at Faslane at 1.15pm on...

April 04 at 10:54am

Comments

Trident and the Budget

In this dissection of the Budget, the Trident question was raised by a poster with regards to both its cost and its inclusion in the SDR.

April 03 at 12:51pm

Comments

European Day of Action to ban nuclear weapons

Protesters are planning a blockade of the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, to coincide with a Europe-wide day urging a ban on nuclear weapons

April 03 at 11:21am

Comments

Lib Dems call for an immediate review of Trident policy

They're not planning on scrapping nuclear weapons, according to a story in the Guardian, but would replace Trident with a scaled down version.

April 02 at 11:13pm

Comments

People's policies - vote on scrapping Trident

Yahoo are running something interesting to tie in with the General Election. On the people's policies website, anyone can submit a proposal, and the rest of...

April 02 at 10:00pm

Comments

Scottish church leaders say Stop Trident

A cross-section of Christian church leaders in Scotland have published an Easter letter speaking out against Trident. The letter says: "All of us have...

April 02 at 05:35pm

Comments

Pieces of advice for candidates

Twenty pieces of advice to election candidates in the blog below. An additional one in the comments sounds like the best thing to do if you are concerned about...

April 02 at 04:14pm

Comments