Liz Truss has a dangerous plan to ramp up military spending. We have to challenge it.
“The only thing that high military spending will make safe is the profits of arms dealers.”
Symon Hill
Symon Hill: We must stand up to militarists’ attempts to misuse the Covid crisis
‘The military top brass is using the pandemic as another opportunity to increase their influence.’
Why calls for more military intervention in Afghanistan spectacularly miss the point
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.
How Keir Starmer is terrified of challenging militarism
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
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
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
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
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
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?
The Overseas Operations Bill will make the armed forces even more immune from prosecution – a dangerous move.