Comments in issue 2586-2587

40 years ago: How do you plead?

by Albert Beale

PN reported on the Old Bailey conspiracy trial of 14 pacifists and anti-militarists – many with PN links – accused in connection with the leafleting of soldiers.

Innocent until ‘likely’ to commit a crime

by Milan Rai

The UK Defence Secretary appears to have created his own new legal principle

Radical Music

by Penny Stone

Four kinds of radical music

Diary: Autumnal thoughts

by Virginia Moffatt

'Who would have thought three months ago that an anti-war MP might become leader of the Labour party?'

Activism and ... Messiahs

by PN

I have two words for you. ‘Jeremy Corbyn.’ Woman, Hastings