Do they have no shame (2)? You would have thought Lord Mandy would have steered clear of Corfu after he was exposed greasing it with senior Tories and oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Not a bit of it. After letting it be known that he was to spend his summer break in Britain this year, the First [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Keep cruelty history – no return to bloodsports
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, August 10th, 2009People are entitled to know which would-be MPs want to bring back bloodsports, argues Marcus Papadopoulos
Why gamekeepers turn poachers: it’s nature’s way
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, August 10th, 2009Four former directors of the League Against Cruel Sports have changed their minds about hunting. Jim Barrington explains why he is one
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, August 10th, 2009
Do they have no shame (1)? We are talking about former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who couldn’t get out of Government fast enough. Now she wants her old job back. In an interview this month, she tells Total Politics magazine in resolute tones that, yes, she would be fighting her Redditch seat at the next [...]
Remember all our fallen in the Great War
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, August 9th, 2009The national memorial service for the First World War must include the colonials who fought, argues Murray Rowlands
Ken Livingstone: The left must grasp the nettle or we’ll all get stung
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, August 9th, 2009By far the most important issue for every political party in Britain is the economy. Britain is in the deepest recession since the Second World War.
Paul Anderson: University challenge – give examiners a more testing role
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, August 9th, 2009On the face of it, higher education should count as one of this Government’s success stories. Something like 45 per cent of young Brits now go to university – more than double the proportion in the early 1990s – and British universities attract more students from abroad than ever before.
Ian Aitken: Ministerial mice too timid to face down fat cat bankers
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 8th, 2009What on earth is wrong with this Government? At a time when ministers could, if they wished, cast caution to the winds and get on with some really radical programmes, they pussyfoot around like maiden aunts trying to choose a hat for the church fete. Yet they have nothing to lose and the possibility – albeit remote – of substantial gain.
How the next decade can belong to Labour
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 7th, 2009Labour needs to change its structures if it is to face the challenges ahead. David Miliband explains how
Embrace financial openness or face annihilation, Labour leadership is told
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, August 6th, 2009Labour chiefs are being challenged to be more open over party finances and political management in order to avert “annihilation” at the next general election.