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DIRECT action could be launched over the government’s “dangerous” decision to increase its cap on nuclear warheads by almost half, campaigners warned today.
The integrated review raises the limit on the number of Trident missiles that can be stored from 180 to 260. It signals an end to 30 years of gradual nuclear disarmament in Britain.
The 44 per cent increase is also the biggest by any nation since the cold war, according to Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Pacifist group Peace Pledge Union warned that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cap increase will be met by “widespread resistance, including non-violent direct action.”
THESE days, Valentine’s Day is a huge boost to the floristry, greetings card and chocolate industries.
Most of it is a rip-off but it did get me thinking perhaps it was all the cards, bouquets and boxes of chocolates that have arrived at home recently. Thanks, readers.
The Victorians sent gifts of blooms, plants and specific floral arrangements that were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in prim Victorian society.
They even invented a pseudo-scientific name for the language of flowers. They called it floriography. It turns up in some unlikely places today.
By Bethany Rielly
THE government’s decision to splurge £550 million on supersonic missiles during the pandemic is an “insult” to Covid-19 patients, NHS staff and key workers, campaigners have said.
Under a multimillion-pound contract announced by the Ministry of Defence today, arms manufacturer MBDA will produce “new-generation” missiles for Britain’s fleet of fighter jets.
Once in operation, the weapons will have a range of more than 80 miles and travel at supersonic speeds, with the MoD boasting of their “unrivalled lethality.”
Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said that the decision “emphasises how wrong and how totally inappropriate Downing Street’s priorities are” during the coronavirus crisis.
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