Labour backbencher John McDonnell has promised to continue campaigning to amend the law on industrial action after his Private Member’s Bill was talked out of Parliament last week
Archive for October, 2010
Murdoch in America
By Tribune Web Editor /Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Rupert Murdoch is not afraid to come clean when it comes to his political preferences, having just donated $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association and the US Chambers of Commerce to help the election of Republicans in next month’s Congressional elections. He told News Corp’s annual shareholders meeting in New York that while the donations were “unusual”, it was “in the interest of the country, the shareholders and everyone’s prosperity that there be a fair amount of change in Washington”. Time for change? Sounds familiar.
Ian Williams
By Ian Williams /Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Neo-con Canada is hung out to dry by the United Nations
To hastening ills a prey, and men decay
By Kailash Chand /Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
Allen Lane, £20
Naughty but nice, if lacking substance
By Patrick Mulcahy /Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Mr Nice
Director: Bernard Rose
The Stoning of Soraya M
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
A lofty ambition to build a better Britain
By Helen Goodman /Tuesday, October 26th, 2010If Labour is to win back lost support, an effective housing policy must be a top priority, writes Helen Goodman
The tide of history leaves Western Sahara high and dry
By Tribune Web Editor /Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Political pressure is the only way to end the conflict, say Ken Loach and Stefan Simanowitz
By Tribune Web Editor /Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Cartoon by Andrew Birch. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Paul Routledge
By Paul Routledge /Monday, October 25th, 2010Democracy in a Pickle with Mr Well-Fed’s pernicious plan
Burmese days – how cyclone unhappened for the military junta
By Samuel Dale /Monday, October 25th, 2010Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma’s Military Regime
by Emma Larkin
Granta, £12.99