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UK and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

Is the ambition to be regarded as “Global leaders” the driver to the UK government’s stance on replacing Trident? The FCO’s explanation of the government’s...
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Trident may need to be looked at again

Shaun Bailey, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith, London, has expressed views contrary to those of the Conservative party on the subject of...
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Grassroots Labour activists don't want Trident

It's heartening to see that at least some Labour activists still have the spirit of 1983. Michael Foot's Labour party fought the 1983 General Election on a...
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Trident – a response to being the 51st State.

Are we merely puppets to our cousins across the pond, or do we have a strong symbiotic relationship with the USA? Nick Clegg. Leader of the Lib Dems argues...
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Trident threatens non-proliferation

Trident replacement is seen by some other countries (and indeed the British public) as contradicting the Government's committment to  international nuclear...
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Regional nuclear war could devastate world population

Even a limited nuclear exchange, say between India and Pakistan, could  block out the sun with large amounts of airborne debris, disrupting global agriculture...
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Cut Trident, not jobs

That was the message from Alex Salmond.   Of all the politicians in the land surely Scotland’s First Minister is the most qualified to talk about...
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Tory responses

I think it would be useful to collect together any responses people receive from the emails generated on The Cut Trident site. My instinct is that the...
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Labour responses

I think it would be useful to collect together any responses people receive from the emails generated on The Cut Trident site. My instinct is that the...
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Lib Dem responses

I think it would be useful to collect together any responses people receive from the emails generated on The Cut Trident site. My instinct is that the...
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Trident replacement - costing us a third of a million a day already!

Here's an interesting figure from a recent Parliamentary Question asked by Independent MP Dai Davies.  The Ministry of Defence has spent a total of £380...
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Hit the Road Trident

The Green Party in Scotland are not best pleased with the transporting of nuclear weapons through the Stirling area despite safety concerns. Mark Ruskell,...
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Labour grassroots want to scrap Trident

There's also evidence that, whatever the Labour leadership thinks and whatever tiny concessions Brown makes, its own party grassroots also want to scrap...
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Into Ploughshares

I read this article on the Press and Journal website partly because it relates indirectly to some of my own interests, and partly because it reinforces for me...
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Scots March Against Trident & Job Cuts

Seems the Scots are less easily conned into believing that we need to spend £97bn on new Trident missile systems. A big march through Edinburgh yesterday...
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Persuading, not polarising

There's an interesting article by George Monbiot in this week's Guardian from which I think we can learn a thing or two from about campaigning. George writes...
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Army Chief sees no need to replace Trident

New post on the main Greenpeace website http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/peace/army-chief-sees-no-need-replace-trident-20100311 The plan is for this...
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Take a virtual tour outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites

Google Street View has now gone live for the West Berkshire area, which means you can take a virtual tour round the outside of the Atomic Weapons Establishment...
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An expensive ticket?

This morning as I was running around getting ready to go to work, I caught Lord Guthrie on Today on Radio 4.  Lord Guthrie (full name Charles Ronald Llewelyn...
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'Trident should be scrapped' (Independent)

An article in the Independent reports on a survey that found the Government should save money by scrapping Trident. 58% of people polled believed that the...
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