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Symon Hill

British Army

Symon Hill: We must stand up to militarists’ attempts to misuse the Covid crisis

Symon Hill
10 January, 2022

‘The military top brass is using the pandemic as another opportunity to increase their influence.’

Afghanistan

Why calls for more military intervention in Afghanistan spectacularly miss the point

Symon Hill
16 August, 2021

Every justification for war used by Bush and Blair and their successors has been exposed as at best naive optimism and at worst outright deception.

Keir Starmer

How Keir Starmer is terrified of challenging militarism

Symon Hill
30 June, 2021

It’s been a bad week for Labour ‘defence’ policy, writes Symon Hill.

Johnny Mercer’s resignation – and the hard right’s weird obsession with military prosecutions

Symon Hill
21 April, 2021

Sacked minister Johnny Mercer (pictured) represents a militarist fixation on putting the armed forces above the law, Symon Hill argues.

Keir Starmer has picked the wrong fight with the PM’s military plans

Symon Hill
24 March, 2021

Keir Starmer has called for a vote in the Commons on Boris Johnson’s plan for a slight reduction in army personnel numbers. Why?

No, Lisa Nandy does not want to abolish the army. But she should

Symon Hill
26 January, 2021

What’s behind the controversy over the Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Open Labour pamphlet?

Ignore the spin, the Hague’s ruling on British war crimes in Iraq is damning

Symon Hill
11 December, 2020

The ICC found “there is a reasonable basis to believe” British troops committed war crimes.

This Remembrance Day, we must remember the victims of today’s wars too

Symon Hill
21 October, 2020

It’s time to revive the message “never again”, writes Symon Hill.

The Tories are trying to remove accountability for war crimes. What will Labour do?

Symon Hill
23 September, 2020

The Overseas Operations Bill will make the armed forces even more immune from prosecution – a dangerous move.

Will the Labour First Minister in Wales allow training of Saudi pilots on Welsh land?

Symon Hill
17 August, 2020

Plans to use land owned by the Welsh government for a military training site called into question.

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