2 May 2008

In this week’s Tribune, available from Friday 2 May 2008 by subscription and in selected branches of WHSmith and Borders

Cover story: Term of trial and tribulation

Education focus: Murray Rowlands, Mike Ion and Graham Lane give their marks on the politicians’ classroom plans

News

Brown facing more turmoil as snap reshufffle is ruled out
As Britain’s debts mount, closure looms for Citizens Advice Bureaux
Mexican government attempts to smash steelworkers’ union
Argentina in trouble as food minister quits after just four months

Features

Spotlights: Don’t panic over ageing Europe/Rice crisis comes to boil
Dave Spooner: Unions go global against worldwide capitalism
Murray Rowlands: Tory education plans fail to pass muster
Mike Ion: Selection is wrong choice for pupils and parents
Graham Lane: Grounds for lack of faith in church schools
Rajiv Prabhakar, Karen Rowlingson & Stuart White: Taxing dilemma

Comment:

Kevin Maguire: Rich pickings for the very richest under Labour
Bryan Rostron: Union resistance to Africa’s autocratic pilots
Tribune editorial: Labour may be down, but it doesn’t have to be out
Richard Corbett: European Court does not belong in dock; David Mills
Letters; Chris Proctor: Panic on the bowling green – don’t be old
Ian Aitken: Don’t let the likes of Levy make the case for state funding

Books and Arts

Peter MacMahon: How Blair was better than Attlee and Wilson
Simon Kinnersley: After the Berlin Wall came tumbling down
Cary Gee: Folk and the power of protest – Julie Felix is cat’s whiskers
Emmanuel Cooper: Compelling views from First World War trenches