We are all children of Margaret Thatcher now – or so earlier reports of the latest British Social Attitudes survey proclaimed in loud headlines
Archive for December, 2010
Mixed messages for Labour and the Conservatives from sociological snapshot
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, December 17th, 2010EU battle on short selling ban begins
By Ben Fox /Friday, December 17th, 2010MEPs in Strasbourg began debating legislation to crack down on short selling and the use of credit default swaps, following evidence that the practice played a significant part in the global financial crisis
British stores accused of exploiting Uzbek child labour
By James Pearson /Friday, December 17th, 2010At Christmas, it always pays to count the pennies, but new evidence suggests shoppers should also count the moral cost of what they buy
Not a complete turkey, but lacking in meat
By Aleks Sierz /Friday, December 17th, 2010Season’s Greetings
National Theatre, London
No reprimand for Conservative council leader over insult
By Bernard Purcell /Thursday, December 16th, 2010The veteran Tory council leader who taunted that northerners who lose their jobs should replace Eastern Europeans as fruit pickers will not face discipline by his party
To the barricades
By Cary Gee /Thursday, December 16th, 2010Tribune asked campaigners: ‘What was the last demonstration you joined and which issue would be most likely to drive you onto the streets again?’
Bad news on the jobless front – and far worse to come in 2011
By Bernard Purcell /Thursday, December 16th, 20102010 drew to an end with a surge in joblessness – particularly high among young people – inflation outstripping ordinary earnings, and cuts and tax increases around the corner in the New Year
Another cutting Tory living the high life
By David Hencke /Thursday, December 16th, 2010Another right-wing Conservative councillor who is calling for firefighters and train drivers in London to be sacked is living a six-figure lifestyle on the taxpayer, Tribune can reveal