Delegates to the Labour Representation Committee conference at Conway Hall in London on January 15 pledged “total opposition” to the coalition’s cuts and urged Ed Miliband to stand shoulder to shoulder with the trade union movement in resisting their implementation.
Archive for January, 2011
‘People’s lives were just bulldozed through’
By Chris McLaughlin /Friday, January 21st, 2011Chris McLaughlin talks to some of those at the heart of the historic News International dispute
Leaked Treasury paper reveals the truth about coalition boasts on bankers’ bonus laws
By Ben Fox /Friday, January 21st, 2011Government claims to have been tough on bank bonuses have been blown out of the water following the release of a Treasury paper which reveals that the Government actively worked to water down a European law to reduce bank bonuses. The document, which came into the possession of a Socialist MEP, shows that in negotiating Britain’s application of the European Union’s Capital Requirements Directive on bank remuneration, the Government did all it could to weaken that directive.
Battered, bruised in the school of hard knocks
By Patrick Mulcahy /Friday, January 21st, 2011Neds – Non-Educated Delinquents
Director: Peter Mullan
I Spit on Your Grave
Director: Steven R. Monroe
NHS gamble could break Britain
By Tribune Editorial /Friday, January 21st, 2011A political circle is being squared. The Conservative-led Government’s dismantling of the National Health Service has a genealogy running from Margaret Thatcher through the years of New Labour to David Cameron’s Tories and their partners of convenience on the right wing of the Liberal Democrats. Mr Cameron likes to position himself as the heir to Tony Blair, as if the former Labour Prime Minister were merely some sort of caretaker of the bridge between Mrs Thatcher’s attempt at public sector reform and his own. In an aside on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Cameron ruminated on the fact that he hadn’t placed a bet in many years, only to be told that he was about to take the biggest gamble of his premiership. Patients’ lives are about to rest in the bottom line of the general practitioner’s budget.
Ian Aitken
By Ian Aitken /Friday, January 21st, 2011In the eurozone, they are now entering the twilight zone
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, January 21st, 2011
Cartoon by Andy Bunday. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Finality, formality and freedom on camera
By Emmanuel Cooper /Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait
Prize 2010
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Stage is set as curtain rises on art for all
By Liz Vercoe /Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Equality is the watchword as Liz Vercoe talks to key players involved in designing and constructing the RSC’s new theatre