When a war correspondent comes home his colleagues will welcome him back to the pub and ask him what it was like, but the truth is that they don’t want to know. A sound bite will usually suffice. Up to your neck in mud and bullets, deprived of sleep for a fortnight at a time, constantly under fire, that’s about as much as they can take. Maybe a quick, very quick, story of some squaddie’s heroism, or some subaltern’s stupidity. And, no, I don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing there, either.
Archive for January, 2010
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, January 25th, 2010
Should Peter Robinson resign as Northern Ireland’s First Minister? You said: Yes – 63% No – 37%
Lesson from America
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, January 25th, 2010As the election looms, Anthony Painter asks what tips Labour might pick up from Barack Obama’s historic campaign
With enemies like that, who needs friends?
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, January 24th, 2010Backstabbing is a tricky business and it can be hard work making a good job of a bad deed, says George Osgerby
Paul Anderson: Electoral reform has a sorry history of missed opportunities
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, January 24th, 2010Reforming the voting system is an anorak thing most of the time – but every now and again it breaks out of the closet, as it has in the past few months.
Ian Aitken: Vote Labour to defeat the Labour Government
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, January 24th, 2010If it were not for the Tories, I would find it very difficult to think of a pressing reason to vote Labour at the general election. Yes, I know the Government has done a lot of good things – not least saving the financial system by baling out the banks with shedfulls of our money. It was distasteful, but it absolutely had to be done. The alternative was the abyss.
The Labour Party must become a movement again
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Win, lose or draw, Labour has a lot of questions to address about its future, says Neal Lawson
A powerful pledge to repair our politics
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, January 22nd, 2010What do ordinary people want from the democratic system? Pam Giddy finds out
Lib Dem seeks blind date
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, January 22nd, 2010Nick Clegg is prepared to put principles to one side in his shameless pursuit of a share of power, writes Ian Hernon