Campus Radicals: Trident

“Unacceptably expensive, economically wasteful and militarily unsound." So Gordon Brown described the Trident missile system a decade after ending his term as rector of Edinburgh University. He may be happy to hear, then, that the Student Association of his alma mater voted earlier this month to oppose renewal of the Trident nuclear programme, and to fund free education instead. Or perhaps not, since Brown has now committed himself to "retaining ... read more

When I heard the police car coming up behind us, I just shouted “Run!” and sprinted down to the road. Before I really knew what was happening, let alone before I had thought about it, I was flat on my back on the tarmac, linking hands with my friends through concrete-coated tubes, with police cars slamming on the brakes behind us. It was seven in the morning on a freezing ... read more