Europe can help to give Egypt more than a just a better form of government, argues Richard Howitt
Archive for February, 2011
Keep the corporate fat cats in check
By Austin Mitchell & Prem Sikka /Friday, February 11th, 2011In the week the bonus bonanza began again, Austin Mitchell and Prem Sikka argue that workplace democracy is the only way to curb executive exces
Lib Dems exposed as the biggest exploiters of unpaid interns
By David Hencke /Friday, February 11th, 2011The Liberal Democrats – whose broken pledge on fees provoked student unrest – are compounding their exploitation of the young by leading the pack at Westminster in employing interns to work for nothing. The party has emerged as the largest recruiter of free labour advertising on the w4mp jobsite.
Detached, desperate and demolished
By Tribune Editorial /Friday, February 11th, 2011Welcome to the Big Society. Witness the howls of synthetic outrage masking the bankers’ grins as they laugh all the way to the bonus bonanza after the exquisite pain of having their tummies tickled by the Chancellor.
Lisa Nandy
By Lisa Nandy /Friday, February 11th, 2011Bring the Tories to book over library closures
Fat catsby Martin Rowson
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, February 11th, 2011Cartoon by Martin Rowson. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Chronicle of a dangerous right-wing farce foretold
By Denis MacShane /Wednesday, February 9th, 2011David Cameron’s European Parliament strategy has collapsed, notes Denis MacShane
Picture of human life so wonderful, awful, exciting and terrible
By Andrew Dodgshon /Tuesday, February 8th, 2011London Labour and the London Poor
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India’s power, corruption and lies
By Kailash Chand /Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Kailsash Chand recently returned from India and warns that the country’s economic and social progress might be drastically undone