PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
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Are secret US living weapons alive in our countryside?
PETER FROST discovers the US’s dirty tricks brigade may even be affecting your country walks
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
IN MY quarter of a century writing for and editing Britain’s biggest-circulation outdoor magazine, I became very familiar with Lyme disease.
Once a year, in spring, just as the bracken started to uncurl its most beautiful fiddleheads, I would remind our half a million readers about the dangers of this nasty, sometimes fatal, tick-spread disease.
Over those 25 years the incidence of Lyme disease seemed to get bigger every year but nobody knew why or even if this was because people like me were simply making country walkers more aware of the risks and symptoms.
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