Catherine Ashton, Britain’s nominee for the new European Commission post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs, faced a series of hostile questions from right-wing British MEPs on Monday, during her formal hearing in the European Parliament.
Archive for January, 2010
MEPs back Ashton but put new European Commission team in doubt
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Labour needs a local voice, say LGA rivals
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Labour councillors must gain an independent voice in the Labour Party, according to all three candidates to lead the Labour Group in the Local Government Association as campaigning began last week.
Scapegoat fears rise as black farmworkers are targeted
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010More than 300 black farmworkers have been driven out of the small Italian town of Rosarno in Calabria after clashes with locals during which several immigrants were shot at, run over and badly beaten up.
DUP hopes caretaker Foster can steer a path through storm
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010The Democratic Unionist Party has opted for the “housewives’ choice” in promoting Stormont enterprise minister Arlene Foster to caretaker First Minister in a last-ditch bid to hold onto its dwindling support among devout Protestants, according to one Unionist source.
One million have put rent and mortgage on credit, says Shelter
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010More than one million householders have resorted to using a credit card to pay their monthly mortgage or rent, according to a new report from the homeless charity Shelter.
Don’t let the right own family matters – Christian Socialist Movement
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Labour should talk more about families and marriage – but keep policy focused on family stability and tackling child poverty, say members of the Christian Socialist Movement. The Tory focus on a marriage tax allowance is misguided, they argue, because it would not treat people fairly.
Cuban-American relations hit yet another icy patch
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Relations between Cuba and the United States have turned frosty again – with foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla accusing Barack Obama of behaving like an “imperial chief”.
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Would the Liberal Democrats support Labour in a hung parliament? You said: Yes – 30% No – 70%
TV: Were Victorian novels really the soap operas of their day? No! As Charles Dickens might have said, soaps is soaps and novels is novels…
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Whenever there is a broadcast serial version of a Victorian novel – especially of a book by poor old Charles Dickens – or some anniversary of a 19th century novelist or publication to feature, then our media’s cultural opinion leaders will trot out the old claptrap about serialised Victorian novels being the “soap operas of their day”.
ROCK: Cultured clubbers are still mad about the boy
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 14th, 2010Boy George
Leicester Square Theatre, London
It takes Boy George just seconds to establish two important facts about tonight’s comeback gig, part of a residency the singer performed during the festive period in a theatre that was re-built to host his musical, Taboo. First, his soulful voice remains as sweet and nimble as ever it was. Second, whatever else the singer may have lost during his recent period of incarceration, it wasn’t his sense of irony.