IT IS tempting to think that Gordon Brown is at last listening to Tribune over Trident. The announcement of the trimming back of the nuclear stockpile might at first site look like the first step on a long road to abandoning Trident altogether. Even critics such as Nigel Griffiths, the Labour MP for Edinburgh South who resigned in protest as a Government aide over the decision to renew Trident in 2007, hailed it as a significant step to “a safer and eventually nuclear-weapon free world”. We can only hope that it may be.
Archive for March, 2009
Tribune Comment: No ifs or buts – scrap Trident now
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009‘Justice my arse!’ says Royle star Ricky
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009CAMPAIGNERS took their fight for Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets to Westminster as Jeremy Corbyn, Dennis Skinner and John McDonnell tabled an early day motion calling for an investigation into the dubious convictions of 24 building workers in 1973.
Labour MPs win second reading for Hoyle’s bill on redundancy
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009LABOUR backbenchers have pushed through a Private Member’s Bill demanding an increase in statutory redundancy pay.
The rise of the far right in Italy
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Bigotry and xenophobia are rife in modern Italy, says Andrea Mammone – and the problem goes all the way to the top of politics
Brown wants to follow Obama lead on ‘people power’
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009A FRESH battle over reform of the Labour Party is looming following frantic Downing Street efforts to play down reports that Gordon Brown is planning to reinvent it in the mould of Barack Obama’s Democrats.
Unison: Let social workers protect our kids
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009UNISON, which represents 300,000 social workers in Britain, has presented a 10-point plan to the Laming Inquiry into child protection which was established after the death of Baby P.
Now the Real IRA targets Adams and McGuinness
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009SINN FEIN and Unionist politicians have been advised to beef up their personal security in the wake of the dissident republican killings of two soldiers and a police officer.
Kilfoyle calls for Iraq War inquiry
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009PETER KILFOYLE has called for a “fully independent judicial inquiry” into why Britain went to war following new allegations that intelligence staff were leaned on by a senior official from the Ministry of Defence during the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Royal Mail partial privatisation runs into money problems
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009THE Government’s controversial plan to part-privatise Royal Mail has run into another problem – and this time it could prove fatal for the much-criticised idea. It appears that private companies do not have the cash to buy the stake the Government wants to sell during this credit crunch-inspired recession.
Papers axed by Guardian threat to local democracy
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009THE decision of the Guardian Media Group to close the Aldershot News office, Woking News and Mail office, and the Esher News and Mail office and cut the publication of the Reading Evening Post from five days a week to just twice a week has been condemned by local community leaders and the National Union of Journalists.