We do not need all this battery-farmed chicken, Arianne Shahvisi 🇵🇸 writes. ‘Diets in industrialised nations are so high in protein that our urine is disrupting marine ecosystems with excess nitrogen. We are overnourished, and so is our soil and water.’ lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/augu…

Very excited to announce the February 2024 publication - in the 40th year of my association with Faber and Faber - of The Secret Public, a history of the LGBTQ influence on pop culture between 1955: signed copies from Rough Trade and Gay’s The Word

First British-made Challenger 2 tank destroyed in Ukraine, according to Forbes. If it was carrying depleted uranium rounds, then the hull will be contaminated and pose a health risk to Ukrainian soldiers and civilians passing by the wreckage forbes.com/sites/davidaxe…

Solidarity with the family of Chris Kaba one year on, with no proper answers.

"Russia has responded to the news that Lakenheath air base in Suffolk is being primed for the return of US nuclear weapons, by threatening to escalate its own 'countermeasures' if deployment of the B61-12 to Britain goes ahead", Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament says. cnduk.org/as-expected-ru…

Posters have appeared explaining the disastrous effect of this week’s DSEI arms fair and the weapons sales that come from it. The first highlights the impact over the eight years of the war in Yemen, the second discusses weapons sales to human rights abusers. #StopDSEI

👉 NEW - 50 years after #Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet by John McEvoy & Pablo Navarrete #StopArmingIsrael In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Thatcher, Labour and Pinochet. declassifieduk.org/50-years-after…

We're inside arms fair #DSEI23 in London This missile, Brimstone, has been used in the brutal Yemen war where thousands of people have killed in airstrikes. Here it is openly on display. Manufactured by MBDA.

Inside #DSEI23 today in London, here's the stand of Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems - which arms the Israeli military and is complicit in attacks on Palestinians in illegally-occupied territories. Openly selling its rockets and mortars. 👉declassifieduk.org/why-were-tryin…

📽️Watch our chief reporter Phil Miller from inside London arms fair #DSEI2023. Arms exporter BAE profited from the brutal #Yemen war, now profits from #Ukraine. Its business is booming, says Phil, who's done more to expose the UK/Saudi role in Yemen than any other journalist.

"Passengers are kindly requested to help stop the London Arms Fair" The UK’s Defence & Security Exports department published the list of countries it has invited to #DSEI arms fairs 8 are on the UK's govt’s list of human rights priority countries (Data via CAAT) #StopDSEI

📽️ "How do you feel about selling arms to the Saudi dictatorship that sentences someone to death for tweeting?" Our chief reporter Phil Miller asks defence minister @jsheappey at London arms fair #DSEI23

Watch as the Arms Dealers arrive during the Act of Remembrance for those killed by the weapons they are going to sell or view. #StopDSEI

Up to 20,000 are now believed dead in Libya. This tragedy hasn't just been caused by floods, but by NATO's 2011 military aggression and ongoing sanctions that have decimated the country and undermined its ability to prepare for extreme weather events. bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl… 1/2

❗️The heads of all UK military services have given speeches to the London arms fair #DSEI23 Because the UK is Desperately Seeking Exports Internationally. Despite already flogging £14bn worth of arms around the world last year. 👉declassifieduk.org/dsei-desperate…

I was pulled aside this week at Europe's Biggest Arms Fair when entering with my press pass: for a 'chat'. It felt odd to be singled out, but I guess they needed to double check the man armed with a pen. How strange such power, such weaponry, is so afraid of critique or review.

"The war in Ukraine has resulted in new orders worth at least £280m for BAE Systems to produce munitions for the MoD, which will donate them to Ukraine. BAE’s share price has jumped more than 75% since the Russian invasion", writes Anna Stavrianakis declassifieduk.org/dsei-desperate…

Meet the Second World War pacifists of Frating Hall Farm newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6172

More evidence emerges that Boris Johnson scuppered a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia at start of war that could have saved tens of thousands of lives pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/…