Des Turner contends that the Government’s claims to be environmentally friendly are founded on a lot of hot air
Archive for February, 2011
Defending the jewel in the crown to the last drop of Indian blood
By Glyn Ford /Monday, February 14th, 2011Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
Basic Books, £18.99
Ian Williams
By Ian Williams /Monday, February 14th, 2011Not just gonzos still carry a torch for Bonzo star
Hard sell for Clarke’s prison plan
By Imran Ahmed /Monday, February 14th, 2011Imran Ahmed fears that the Justice Secretary’s reforms will be fatally undermined by the Prime Minister’s austerity
Deposing this despot would benefit the whole Middle East
By Marjorie Smith /Sunday, February 13th, 2011Marjorie Smith says that the removal of Egypt’s autocratic and brutal ruler is essential for peace and progress in an entire region
Alex Hughes’ view
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, February 13th, 2011Cartoon by Alex Hughes. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Sunny Clemens, Huckleberry Finn and those button down Morlocks toiling at the Twain-face
By Edward Pearce /Sunday, February 13th, 2011Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1 edited by Harriet Elinor Smith
University of California Press, £24.95
Misogynist blokes and their sexist jokes
By Joe Cushnan /Saturday, February 12th, 2011Hawksbee and Jacobs
TalkSport
Desert Island Discs
Radio 4
Chris Evans
Radio 2
Russia and US make a fresh start on arms control with new treaty
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Friday, February 11th, 2011The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between Russia and the United States came into force during the annual Security Policy conference in Munich. New Start, which replaces the original Start treaty signed between Moscow and Washington in 1991, limits both superpowers to a maximum of 1,550 warheads each – and an upper limit of 700 strategic launchers and heavy bombers.