Ian Hernon says Ed Miliband’s frontbench appointments reveal a shift in Labour’s balance of power
Archive for October, 2010
Obituary: Sam Lesser 1915-2010
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, October 21st, 2010Roger Bagley pays tribute to one of the last International Brigade volunteers and a courageous journalist
Martin Rowson
By Martin Rowson /Thursday, October 21st, 2010George Osborne, the vandal-in-chief, hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing
Health and safety review “missed opportunity” – unions
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, October 21st, 2010The Government’s review of industrial health and safety regulation has been attacked by unions
After the speculation the reality: a million jobs to be axed and public services to be devastated
By Bernard Purcell /Thursday, October 21st, 2010he Government announced its intention to take £81 billion out of public spending over the next four years and eliminate the structural deficit in five years.
Anger and alliances grow on public sector cuts
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, October 21st, 2010Support is growing across the north of England for “public sector alliances” of unions and community groups opposing the Government’s cuts, according to union activists
Answers sought over housing cuts
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, October 21st, 2010George Osborne’s announcement of cuts and changes to social housing raises more questions than it answers, Shadow Housing Minister Alison Seabeck told Tribune. Mr Osborne said affordable housebuilding funding would be cut by 60 per cent to 2014-15, a total of £4 billion. The Government plans to build 150,000 affordable homes over the same period, [...]
A weaker Britain starts here
By Tribune Editorial /Thursday, October 21st, 2010In the words of Milton Friedman, hero to Margaret Thatcher and the extreme neo-liberals of the Chicago school of economics: “Only a crisis… produces real change.”
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Cartoon by Martin Rowson. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Betty’s warning
By Tribune Web Editor /Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Baroness Boothroyd has warned that electing the House of Lords without clarifying what it is supposed to do could precipitate its “wanton destruction” – which some people might actually see as a good thing. Lord Adonis, meanwhile, has urged his ermine-clad colleagues to get their act together. He said that when he was Transport Secretary in the last Labour Government, he was never invited to give any evidence concerning his portfolio to peers. “A century and a half ago, Walter Bagehot said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords
was to come and look at it. I fear that this is still too often true today.”