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SOPHIE BOLT
A family stands on ruins of their home after a Russian air guided bomb hit their private house in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Military spending / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

SOPHIE BOLT argues that spending more on military will harm rather than benefit Britain by diverting vital resources away from essential public services

GLOSSING OVER REALITY: Keir Starmer at a roving robot technology workshop sponsored by BAE system in Barrow-in-Furness while viting to lay the keel for first Dreadnought class nuclear-armed submarine, March 2025
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament / 10 July 2026
10 July 2026

We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT

A mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb explosion
Anti-War / 20 June 2026
20 June 2026

Build peace, not a new nuclear Europe, says SOPHIE BOLT of CND

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, after he returned from Miami, April 12, 2026
Anti-War / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains

Donald Trump nuclear test
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND

(L to R) A banner hung of the fence next to the iconic ‘Atomic Bomb Dome’ in Hiroshima, Monday, August 4, 2025; His Excellency Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo, the South African High Commissioner with Kyoko Gibson in Parliament in July / Pic (left) author supplied
Features / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025

SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament

SABLE RATTLING:  Keir Starmer visits to a military base in s
Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
SOPHIE BOLT explains why Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is organising a national protest tour at nuclear bases, starting with a demo at BAE shipyard in Barrow, where Starmer and Healey have been banging the drum for war
Protesters taking part in the Stop Trident protest march as
Features / 15 March 2025
15 March 2025
As Macron and Merz propose French nuclear-armed jets be stationed in Poland and Germany, the dangerous implications for peace and the possibility of nuclear confrontation grow, warns SOPHIE BOLT
ESCALATION: Fragments of a missile fired by Ukraine at Kursk
Features / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
The use of long-range weapons marks a terrifying escalation as Biden and Starmer ignore the growing calls for peace from ordinary Ukrainians and Russians in favour of more carnage, writes SOPHIE BOLT
MACHINERY OF DEATH: A member of the armed services on the de
Features / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
Overcoming US global dominance is key: the Star publishes a speech from SOPHIE BOLT, from Saturday’s CND World We Want conference