THE Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has hit out at the Government’s decision to sell its one-third stake in the company that runs the Atomic Weapons Establishment to the American firm Jacobs Engineering.
Archive for January, 2009
CND voices concerns after Aldermaston is sold to US
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 8th, 2009By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Should Michael Martin resign as Speaker of the House of Commons? You said: YES: 73%, NO: 27%
THEATRE: Every good audience deserves something better than this
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, January 5th, 2009Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
National Theatre, London
POLITICAL theatre is so liberal in its sympathies that, for a while now, the search has been on for a right-wing political play. Could it be that this revival of a 1970s play about the Soviet Union by the arch-conservative Sir Tom Stoppard fits the bill? Alas, no, it’s about dissidents, wears its liberal cred on its sleeve and makes no attempt to hide its profusely bleeding heart.
TELEVISION: The Ross dilemma – fan the duvet or opt for lock down?
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, January 4th, 2009Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
BBC 1
THERE were prolonged cheers from a hyped-up studio audience when Jonathan Ross stepped through the magic doorway after his three-month spell of gardening leave.
Robert Giddings: Tales of little drummer boy
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, January 3rd, 2009From Laurel and Hardy to Pavarotti
by Ronnie McCrae
Lulu.com, £10
Wrong Sex, Wrong Instrument by Maggie Cotton
Apex Publishing, £9.99
THIS is a first. For me, anyway. From Laurel and Hardy to Pavarotti, the autobiography of Ronnie McCrae, a percussionist with the Royal Opera, is to be had from the website Lulu.com. It’s an exciting and revealing story of a drummer’s career from its beginnings in Belfast to nightclubs in London and then a fine career playing in the pit at Covent Garden.
Fuel future and the regicide of King Coal
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Britain still has huge coal reserves but faces an energy shortfall. Nicholas Jones says the 25th anniversary of the 1984-5 miners’ strike provides an ironic backdrop at a critical moment