The Tory leader will have to console himself with less illustrious friends back home – such as lapdancing club owner Peter Stringfellow. The ageing lothario helped to swell the Tory leader’s election coffers with the donation of a dinner for six at his London venue. The “prize” sold for several thousand when it was auctioned [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Q&A is A-OK, but questions outnumber the answers
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, February 28th, 2010It was minus two outside, but inside the church hall in Ilkley things were definitely hotting up. A Labour election “Any Questions?” open to the public attracted about 40 people, a good turnout for a freezing night in Wharfedale. And Ilkley isn’t exactly a socialist hotbed. More of an Alan Titchmarsh flower bed, he being the local hero.
Jill Palmer: Never mind the width, feel the quality
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, February 27th, 2010“Quality” is the latest buzzword in the National Health Service. Not content with all its existing performance measures showing how well – or not – the NHS is meeting various targets, the Department of Health has introduced “Quality Accounts”. Every trust, including hospital trusts and primary care trusts, has to produce its first Quality Account in June outlining what it has done to improve quality of care for patients.
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, February 27th, 2010
David Cameron has reportedly given up on his office’s desperate efforts to get him an audience with President Obama in time for a vote-boosting handshake before the general election. The pair met over a cup of tea at the American ambassador’s home in London last April. But since then all pleas for a meeting in [...]
Let’s explode the Middle Britain myths
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, February 27th, 2010Labour can only win the election by fighting for a fair deal for all – that’s what the majority wants, argues “Arkwright”
We can speak truth to power
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, February 27th, 2010The voluntary sector has two vital roles: helping to deliver a better society and campaigning for one, argues Liz Atkins
The Blair doctrine
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, February 26th, 2010British intervention in Kosovo and Sierra Leone means Tony Blair is still held in high esteem by some, says Ed Davie
Jeremy Dear: Conservative solution to the media crisis – do nothing
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, February 26th, 2010The mydavidcameron.com site is brilliant – letting us all have a go at unmasking the real values behind the smarmy smile. For those who haven’t seen it, the idea is to simply replace whichever vacuous slogan a group of highly paid advertising executives have thought up and plonked next to David Cameron’s face. They are on billboard posters everywhere. But viral campaigns are undermining all that hard work.
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, February 26th, 2010
Prince Charles has raised hackles at the Department of Health, just one of several Government departments the heir to the throne has been bothering with hare-brained schemes for running various bits of the country in the absence of a proper job. Busy Secretary of State Andy Burnham and senior civil servants have had to divert [...]
Scrap Trident, say activists as Miliband meets policy forum
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, February 26th, 2010Labour’s grassroots have petitioned the leadership to scrap the Trident nuclear deterrent in the run-up to the party finalising its manifesto for the general election. Calls to ditch the planned replacement of nuclear missiles and submarines, estimated officially at £15-£20 billion but by anti-nuclear campaigners as much at nearer £75 billion, are among the most popular in the policy submissions being sent in by constituency parties. They were due to be passed to manifesto co-ordinator Ed Miliband as he met with members of Labour’s National Executive Committee and its National Policy Forum on Thursday this week.