New initiatives and new treatments mean there is fresh hope in the battle against cervical cancer in Africa, says David Kerr
Archive for April, 2009
Jill Palmer: Something is rotten in the state of teeth – poverty is root cause
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009DENTAL decay is a disease of social disadvantage. The recent shocking study which revealed the staggering number of young children who have rotten teeth proved that the poor are far more likely to need treatment.
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009
BRITISH MEP Tom Wise and his researcher were this week charged with money-laundering and false accounting. Mr Wise represents East Anglia but was actually elected in 2009 as a member of the UK Independence Party. UKIP decided to sever its ties with him after he bragged about his life of freeloading to someone who turned [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009
MEMBERS of the Socialist Youth Network members may well be dangerous firebrands, but one wonders if it was really necessary for the Metropolitan Police to threaten one of them with a year’s imprisonment for trying to hold a demonstration near Downing Street – which they’d already organised. Her Majesty’s finest told Owen Jones of the [...]
What would Jesus do? Not vote BNP, for a start
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009THE British National Party has launched an advertising campaign in the run-up to the European parliamentary elections on June 4 that seeks to solicit the votes of Christians.
Alice Mahon: The party’s over for me
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009There’s no hope of change or reform under the current leadership. That’s why I’m resigning from the Labour Party
Jack Jones, 1913-2009
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009A unique figure of our times: Geoffrey Goodman pays tribute to a Spanish civil war veteran, great union leader and tireless pensioners’ campaigner
Cathy Warwick: Midwife shortage to continue for years
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009A WOMAN conceiving a child this month will give birth to her baby in a new era of choice for maternity care in England. The Government has said that “Maternity Matters” – its maternity care policy, launched in April 2007 – and guaranteed that, by the end of this year, England’s National Health Service will deliver a world-class maternity service to all new mothers.
Bryan Rostron: Age of Zuma arrives, but may not herald a new dawn
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, April 27th, 2009SOUTH Africa’s minister of transport Jeff Radebe said recently that his party, the African National Congress, was “the parliament of the people”. This gives a strong clue as to what has gone wrong with the former liberation movement. As with many other post-independence parties in Africa, there is a fatal confusion been party and state. Jacob Zuma will be our new President. He will also inherit this potentially fatal flaw. How he addresses that crisis will determine whether the Zuma era renews the mass-based credentials of the ANC or condemns it to becoming yet another callous kleptocracy.
Tribune Comment: Chancellor’s missed opportunity
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, April 26th, 2009IF HE had been intending to deliver the bold Budget which the nation cries out for, Chancellor Alistair Darling had a ready-made agenda staring the Government in the face. Banking – wholesale nationalisation with Government directors setting strategy to ensure the banks deliver on the taxpayers’ money. Jobs – a comprehensive job creation programme through house building, transport and other public works and expansion of the green economy. Housing – a massive programme of building to help tackle the homeless crisis, create jobs and stimulate the economy. Taxation – a chance to take advantage of the new appetite for redistribution by taxing the wealthier more and introduced more tax advantages for the less well-off. In his own mantra: “You grow your way out of recession, you can’t cut your way out.” So how well does the real thing measure up to the wish list?