Met spying on Greenham Common protest was ‘ridiculous waste of money’, say campaigners
Undercover officer was deployed as Thatcher wanted to know what the ‘Greenham women were doing’, inquiry told
'Spy cops' scandal
Extent of police infiltration of CND under Thatcher ‘truly shocking’
Public inquiry hears that at least five undercover officers spied on anti-nuclear movement during 1980s
Other lives
Joan Winfield obituary
Other lives: Primary school teacher and lifelong campaigner for nuclear disarmament
May 2024
Adder girl! Tunnels aim to encourage British snakes to mix and breed
Trust builds passes under road bisecting Berkshire commons for increasingly endangered venomous snake
January 2024
How best to avert nuclear Armageddon
Letters: Sir Julian Lewis writes that a multilateral disarmament deal is the only answer, while Tom Unterrainer says politicians must be held accountable on public safety and security
December 2023
Other lives
Alice Cook obituary
Lady Kinnock of Holyhead obituary
October 2023
Himalayan tree-huggers and a landscape of vulvas: the eco-show where women call the shots
The Barbican’s new exhibition looks at the way ecofeminism has evolved – from anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common to ‘multiple clitoris’ art
April 2023
Country diary
Country diary: Where better to learn about the resilience of life?
Greenham Common, West Berkshire: This is a place of both human and animal community, migrating birds, peaceful heath. It wasn’t always thus
January 2023
Other lives
Julie Boston obituary
Other Lives: Teacher and activist whose home hosted union meetings, striking miners and a family who had been evicted
August 2022
Nuclear apocalypse was postponed in 1968. Now it’s back on the agenda
Simon Tisdall
As the world remembers Hiroshima, it must also recommit to the increasingly fragile non-proliferation treaty. The alternative is unthinkable
July 2022
Other lives
Jude Howell obituary
‘We won’t stay silent any longer’ – 13 protest photographs that changed Britain
June 2022
Other lives
Charlie Kiss obituary
Bruce Kent obituary
May 2022
Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
From a cruise missile Constable to a rampaging neon giant, artists have always used rural settings to confront the uses and abuses of land. We go behind the scenes at a riveting new Liverpool show that captures their rebellious spirit
March 2022
‘By 10, I knew all about the impact of a nuclear blast’: growing up in the shadow of the bomb
From CND marches, to books, films and music, fear of the bomb was everywhere in the 1980s. Now, for many, the war in Ukraine has brought back that sense of dread
November 2021
Other lives
Barbara Doris obituary
Other lives: One of the founders of Greenham Common peace camp
October 2021
Mothers of the Revolution review – emotional return to Greenham Common
With stirring testimony on offer from the organisers of the groundbreaking women’s peace camp, this doc doesn’t need its superfluous dramatic recreations
August 2021
Greenham Common at 40: We came to fight war, and stayed for the feminism
In 1982, Julie Bindel joined 30,000 women ‘embracing the base’ in protest over nuclear arms. Here she recounts the pivotal role the protest played in their lives
