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Archive for September, 2009
Terror in Tegucigalpa
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, September 21st, 2009How right-wing plotters seized power in Honduras and what they are doing to keep it. By Enrico Tortolano
Democracy on the cheap for MPs’ staff
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, September 21st, 2009How politicians treat their employees is a vital issue of parliamentary standards, argue Gareth Myton and Louise Haigh
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, September 21st, 2009
Shameless class enemy of the week award at the TUC goes to Sun Whitehall editor David Wooding, who gleefully picked up a “Don’t Buy The Sun” Hillsborough commemoration T-shirt and posed in it for photos (within the relative privacy of the media writing area). As the Currant Bun’s token Scouser, perhaps he was trying to [...]
Hearts and minds versus ultimate force
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, September 21st, 2009British and American counter-insurgency strategies are very different. Paul Dixon explains why
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, September 20th, 2009
No two Cabinet members – or not, even, in the case of Jon Cruddas and James Purnell – can be seen in the same room together without sparking fresh speculation about a “dream ticket” for a leadership challenge. And so it proved when deputy leader Harriet Harman, whose aspirations cannot be hidden, chose Ed Miliband [...]
Ian Aitken: To them that hath shall be given a hell of a lot more
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, September 19th, 2009Way back in the early 1950s, before I abandoned the real world and joined the glorious fantasy world of journalism, I worked for a spell as the research officer of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. Among my tasks was the preparation of pay claims covering the members of our 48 affiliated unions – claims which in those days came round with clockwork regularity every 12 months.
Common sense before all-women shortlists
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, September 19th, 2009Local Labour parties are best placed to choose their candidates, argues Janet Anderson
Pushing for a global tax
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, September 19th, 2009An international levy on financial speculation need no longer be a mere pipedream, says Gary Kent
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Signs of a political tussle between Unite and the RMT? Never. The train workers union tabled a motion calling on the TUC to campaign for a million signatures in support of the radical People’ Charter. Some members in Unite thought they could detect a clever tactic for hijacking the TUC’s authority for a cause espoused [...]