18 July 2008

In this week’s Tribune, available by subscription and from selected branches of WHSmith and Borders

Cover story: Making a mint from Iraq

Solomon Hughes reports on how the coffers of a British company were bolstered by winning the contract to print the Iraqi’s new currency

News

Pressure mounts for postal workers’ disaffiliation from Labour
Warwick II: push for a social Europe tops the agenda
Union dismay as Hutton’s economist advocates more outsourcing
European socialists set out their peace credentials
Gareth Thomas: Next week’s WTO talks can succeed – and they must

Features

Spotlights: Cyprus’ divisions may heal/Union hopes for Warwick
Terry Moore: Britain’s border control policy borders on madness
Solomon Hughes: De La Rue on the road to a fortune from Iraq
Neil Hodge: Israel’s 60th anniversary– scant cause for celebration

Comment

Paul Routledge: Indifference and embarrassment colour by-elections
Cary Gee: When church discrimination beggars belief
Bryan Rostron: Genetic inheritance reveals a melting pot world
Tribune editorial: Government holds public sector to ransom
Trevor Fisher: Call a halt to these failed education reforms; David Mills
Letters; Jeremy Dear: Police surveillance and not so candid cameras
Jill Palmer: The whole truth about British dentistry’s state of decay

Books & Arts

Stephen Beer: Truthful with the economy and the credit crunch
Phil Chamberlain: Comic cuts as Mark Steel shows his modern mettle
Helen Chappell: Shameless but compelling boneheaded Bonekickers
Emmanuel Cooper: Light of humanity shines through Afghan darkness