War on Want has welcomed the Government’s announcement that ministers now accept the need for an ombudsman to police supermarkets’ behaviour towards their suppliers.
Archive for January, 2010
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger was brought down to earth rather abruptly after delivering the prestigious Hugh Cudlipp lecture. At the end of his hour-long exposition on the future of the newspaper industry and journalism in the digital future to an audience of academics and journalists, he was thanked by the great Mirror man’s widow Lady [...]
VISUAL ARTS: Questioning the codes and collapsing the distinction
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010Craftivism
Arnoldfini Gallery, Bristol
Craft plus activism equals craftivism. That would be a reasonable deduction from this intriguing exhibition, a bringing together of two contrasting activities with a curious if provocative title. Like the hybrid title, Craftivism is not a conventional exhibition. To begin with, there are few objects, but a variety of activities under the slogans “Reuse”, “Remake”, “Reclaim” – moving the emphasis from object to action.
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010
There have been many unflattering suggestions made about the pictures of David Cameron’s strangely flawless-looking face on his £500,000 posters, not least from Star Trek devotees. Trekkies will yawn at the internet joke that the Tory leader’s Botox-happy appearance resembles the android Lieutenant Commander Data, but Tribune has a better idea. On the right is [...]
Obituary: Nina Fishman, 1946-2010
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010The death of Professor Nina Fishman who has died of cancer at the age of 63 has robbed the political left and academe of an outstanding social historian. Her special field was labour and trade union history, but her exceptional abilities as a teacher, lecturer and writer were spread across a wide area of labour history encompassing the British (and European) trade union movement, the Labour Party and the British Communist Party.
Berlusconi goes in mob-handed for injustice
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010Inequality under the law in Italy will become a reality if its controversial leader has his way, warns Andrea Mammone
Belfort International Film Festival
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010“All the mountain tops around are converted into fortresses, and the whole place runs over with soldiers, and seems to breathe the spirit of the colossal Lion of Belfort. This wonderful monument is partly cut out of the living rock at the foot of the castle, and seems always to gaze fiercely forth upon Alsace and upon Germany.”
So wrote a New York Times correspondent in 1894 about Belfort, a small city tucked away in a remote but strategic corner of north-eastern France, not far from the Swiss border. And the Lion, a sphinx-like red-sandstone beast some 22 metres long and 11 metres high, is still there beneath the garrison-like castle. It peers towards the city’s sole remaining movie-house, located in a former abattoir, run by international chain Pathé and, for the majority of the present decade home to Entrevues – Festival du Film Belfort, which celebrated its 24th edition at the end of last year.
Kurds show the way to prosperity
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010Gary Kent has seen for himself that there can be a hopeful future for Iraq in Kurdistan
THEATRE: Play on music as the food of love has feel-good factor
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010Midsummer (A Play with Songs)
Soho Theatre, London
What are the politics of rom-com? Are modern romantic comedies just lame adverts for the failing institution of marriage, an attempt to boost weddings, which in our consumer-squashed age invariably cost much more than you want them to? Or can rom-coms also be a serious exploration of love, one of the core human emotions?
Europe launches battle against growing poverty
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, January 28th, 2010Trade unions are backing a new Europe-wide campaign against poverty and social exclusion, launched last week with a European Union budget of almost £15 million and scheduled to run until the end of the year.