You can feel his pain. Heavyweight Tory chairman Eric Pickles had a complaint to make. Some wag had set up a stall in the exhibition “mall”, as they like to call it at Tory conference, selling Gordon Brown’s Porky Pies (Geddit?). They sold out so fast poor Eric had no time to get his chops [...]
Archive for October, 2009
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, October 19th, 2009
Tory conference managers were playing with fire and direct action protestors may have missed a trick in Manchester recently. The Conservative conference was treated to a “live” backdrop of an unidentified town with scenes life just going on as normal – shoppers, buses, people and all that. The only thing missing – apparently a concern [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, October 19th, 2009
Two legal cases, two newspapers, two different countries. In Russia, a court has thrown out a libel suit filed by Josef Stalin’s grandson against an article in Novaya Gazeta which said that the Soviet dictator was responsible for sending thousands of people to their deaths. A ruling against the paper would have been seen as [...]
Tories fail the tax test
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, October 19th, 2009The Conservatives would create only loopholes when a total reform of the tax system is needed, says Prem Sikka
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Boris Johnson has long been known for his opposition to any attempt to stop City hedge fund managers flushing the economy down the toilet all over again. Even the European Union’s modest hedge fund directive – labelled as having “more holes than a Swiss cheese” by the Party of European Socialists’ usually quote-unfriendly Poul Nyrup [...]
Ian Aitken: Sorry Tory exceptions to the golden rule
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, October 18th, 2009One of the problems for politicians seeking to apply Keynesian remedies in an economic crisis such as the present one is that the master’s basic proposition about deficit spending seems to run counter to the natural instincts of ordinary people facing a similar crisis in their own domestic affairs.
Our fight is for the future of our industry
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, October 18th, 2009With a national postal strike looming, Billy Hayes explains why the workforce is taking a stand to defend the postal service
Ed Balls: Two-faced Tories and the truth behind the mask
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, October 18th, 2009It was the week when the mask began to slip. The week when the Tories’ rhetoric could no longer conceal the reality. The week when their policy positions, whether on Europe, welfare reform or pensions, quickly unravelled under the slightest scrutiny.
Ian Williams: Change of course merits glittering prize
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, October 18th, 2009A few hundred yards from where I write in upstate New York, an American Nobel Peace prizewinner was born. Not Barack Obama – after all, lots of Americans know he was born in Kenya and see the award as confirmation of his dangerous cosmopolitanism. No, it was the little-remembered John Raleigh Mott, born in the tiny Catskill town of Livingston Manor, who won the prize in 1946 for his work in establishing the YMCA internationally – for which the Village People surely owe him an anthem.
The nasty party never went away
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, October 17th, 2009As MPs return to Westminster, Ian Hernon advises Labour to lay into the toffs many expect to form the next government