Following a heated debate with a Tory on the old chestnut of whether it’s possible to legislate for equality, I attempted to download Boris Johnson’s Equal Life Chances for All from the internet. After conducting a Google search for this, the second London mayoral report into life chances in the capital, a prompt appeared on my screen asking whether I meant to search for “Unequal Life Chances for All”. Well no. However, judging from the furore the Mayor’s report has ignited in the Conservative Party, I might as well have done.
Archive for August, 2009
Cary Gee: Labour and Tories are not like for like on equality
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 15th, 2009By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Is it really true that Harriet Harman is a half-cousin to David Cameron? If so, we have the prospect of both the Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition drawn from the ranks of toffs after the next general election. Although a lot would have to happen before that became a reality.
Tories dance with the wolves
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 15th, 2009The Cam-Kam is the Euro right’s new tango. Denis MacShane hopes it doesn’t catch on
The Times, they are are a-charging
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 15th, 2009Content is not free, says Jeremy Dear. That’s why Rupert Murdoch is right to start charging for his online newspapers
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009
Meanwhile, the Italian Prime Minister’s own summer vacation this year will include “stress relief”. It seems that press revelations about earlier “stress relief” involving prostitutes and sex tapes have left the priapic old shyster feeling rather stressed out. No less than three medical experts have been flown to his Milan residence to advise on diet, [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009
Is Harriet Harman right that Labour should never again have an all-male leadership? You said: Yes – 38% No – 62%
If I’m in the dock, what are the charges?
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009A battle is underway for Labour’s heart and soul and there are serious questions about its finances, says Peter Kenyon
Royal Mail’s new machines going to waste, says CWU
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Royal Mail is delaying the introduction of mail sorting machinery over concerns that it will result in mail being delivered later, the Communication Workers Union suggested this week. CWU officials say most of the machines bought, part of a planned order of 1,000 to be used to replace manual sorting by postmen, are lying idle at an undisclosed location in the Midlands.
Tribune Comment: It’s still a crusade or it’s nothing
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Last week, Tribune caused a media flurry with our publication of David Miliband’s vision of the political future. Although wide-ranging in its sweep, the interest focused on Mr Miliband’s support for the idea of introducing primaries into the selection process for would-be MPs in a paradigm shift of the debate over how parties reconnect with the electorate. We moved in relation to present systems and practice from, it’s broke, to: let’s not bother fixing it, let’s invent something else instead.
Brown “downplayed cost of Iraq war”
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Gordon Brown deliberately underplayed the potential cost of the Iraq conflict when presenting figures to Parliament as the conflict was getting under way, according to records obtained under freedom of information legislation.