We need a heavy dose of realism in British foreign and domestic policy, says Edward Pearce
Archive for November, 2009
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, November 29th, 2009
To the surprise of no one at all, David Cameron got a much better reception at the CBI than Gordon Brown. As for Nick Clegg, in common with many other people, CBI delegates were largely uninterested. However, they were not at all taken with the Liberal Democrat leader’s strident criticism of “unearned wealth”. Given that [...]
A casualty of Labour cuts
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, November 29th, 2009One local hospital closure could have national significance at the general election, warns Mark Metcalf
It’s not racist to discuss immigration
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, November 29th, 2009Ignoring the debate about who comes into this country plays into the hands of the far right, says Stephen McCabe
Ian Williams: In search of a clean bill of health
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, November 29th, 2009New York, with its vestigial social democratic culture, is less committed than most cities to private affluence at the expense of public squalor, but it’s still hard to find a public toilet in Manhattan. A few years ago, New York was about to sign up a company to provide the type of automated toilet common in other cities. Threatened legal action demanding that these toilets meet standards for disability access flushed the deal away. The result is that everyone – disabled or walking – has to cross their legs.
Playing to prejudice and crude populism
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, November 28th, 2009A year ago, Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Andrew Selous pledged that the Tories would not deregulate health and safety laws. He said that there was “no political mileage in going down the deregulation route”.
Smooth Cameron can’t conceal brutal Tory reality
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, November 28th, 2009Last weekend’s opinion poll showing Labour just six points behind the Tories ought to be received with cool heads. Polls go up and down and we should proceed with caution. Its significance has more to do with the fact that such a poll is even possible than in taking it at face value.
Confessions of a Lib Dem leader
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, November 28th, 2009Nick Clegg would follow his right-wing instincts in the event of a hung parliament, says Vincent Moss
Ian Aitken: We’d all be losers if Labour loses
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, November 27th, 2009I have always had a great deal of respect for Roy Hattersley, not least because of his refusal to join with the rest of the Gaitskellite right wing of the Labour Party when they collectively upped sticks and joined the Social Democratic Party.
Paul Anderson: Judgment day looms – but Labour may not be terminated
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, November 27th, 2009So here we are, with just six months left. The party conferences and the Queen’s Speech have come and gone, and judgment day is looming. There doesn’t have to be a general election before June 3 next year, but just about everyone agrees that it will be on May 6 – the same date as the local elections.