Archive for March, 2010

Classes conflict: how to get ahead by a hair

By Patrick Mulcahy /Friday, March 19th, 2010

The Headless Woman
Director: Lucrecia Martel

Left MPs and union leaders tell Darling: give us a Budget to love with second boost, not cuts

By Keith Richmond /Friday, March 19th, 2010

The Chancellor is facing increasing pressure from MPs and economists to extend the fiscal stimulus

By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, March 19th, 2010

Cartoonist Matt Buck on the British Airways strike. More at www.tribunecartoons.com

In this week’s Tribune

By Oli Usher /Friday, March 19th, 2010

This week’s Tribune, on sale from Today in selected branches of WHSmith, and available by subscription features Nyta Mann’s revealing interview with Peter Hain.

We have Sally Hunt and Michael Burke writing on the dangers of cutting spending.

Columnist David Wilson casts a forensic eye over the James Bulger case, Paul Anderson talks about tactical voting, and exclusive to the print edition of the magazine, Ken Livingstone looks at how communities came together to reverse one of Boris Johnson’s worst decisions, while Ian Hernon looks at how Labour tactics are, at last, paying dividends.

Our Letters page, exclusive to the print edition, features more readers’ memories of Michael Foot, plus widespread outrage about the Ashcroft affair.

Plus our culture section reviews the latest books and arts.

Remember, the TribuneMagazine.co.uk website doesn’t feature all of the content of the magazine, and most articles published online are delayed. The only place you can read all of the magazine when it’s fresh is in the print edition. So subscribe now!

“We’ve got to win this election”: Interview with Peter Hain

By Nyta Mann /Friday, March 19th, 2010

The Welsh Secretary talks to Nyta Mann about football, tactical voting and why George Osborne is just like George Bush

Unions have a future, workers tell survey

By René Lavanchy /Friday, March 19th, 2010

Despite shrinking union membership, British workers still see the value of organised labour

A crook’s charter

By Ian Aitken /Friday, March 19th, 2010

Our columnist thinks that companies choosing their own auditors is like criminals choosing their own policemen

Regeneration has failed mining areas, say MPs

By David Hencke /Friday, March 19th, 2010

Despite massive spending on regeneration, former mining areas still lag the rest of the country on a range of social and health indicators

The lady’s not for burning – will she rust?

By Joe Cushnan /Friday, March 19th, 2010

Maggie’s End
Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield

Final fond farewell to Michael, the evergreen left-winger

By Chris McLaughlin /Friday, March 19th, 2010

The great and the good came out for Michael Foot’s funeral on March 15