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Archive for May, 2011
Republicans seek Met meeting over wedding day detentions
By Keith Richmond /Friday, May 6th, 2011Republic, which campaigns for an end to the monarchy in this country, is seeking an urgent meeting with the Metropolitan Police after evidence emerged that officers in London arrested, held, and then released without charge people they thought were about to peacefully protest on the day of the royal wedding.
Now head teachers add to Gove’s woes with an overwhelming vote for strike action
By Keith Richmond /Friday, May 6th, 2011Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, is at the heart of yet another political storm after head teachers voted for a ballot on strike action in their bitter row with the Conservative-led coalition over pensions.
Government plans into practice will hit growth, says investment expert
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, May 6th, 2011Britain’s economic growth will be hit for a number of years as government spending cuts and public sector job losses are converted from plans into practice, according to global investment bank Barclays Capital.
On the stump and on the up
By Paul Routledge /Friday, May 6th, 2011It hasn’t rained properly up ’ere for seven weeks or more, but who’s complaining when you’re out delivering leaflets for the Labour Party?
It’s about time we burst the Westminister bubble
By Lisa Nandy /Friday, May 6th, 2011While I’ve had enough letters about the economy, job losses and cuts to public services to fill a room, I’ve had just one single letter about AV. Most of the media commentary has concentrated on the rifts in the coalition, or the quality of the campaigns. Charlie Brooker, writing in The Guardian, said the two [...]
Furious US unions urge Obama to tear up Bahrain trade deal
By Keith Richmond /Friday, May 6th, 2011The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, which represents 11 million workers and is the biggest federation of trade unions in the United States, has called on Barack Obama’s administration to tear up its free trade deal with Bahrain in response to the brutal repression of peaceful protests in the Gulf state,
What a nob – and he’s certainly no Harold Macmillan
By Edward Pearce /Friday, May 6th, 2011When David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party, defeating the rough-edged David Davis, there were two reactions.
Tories seek payback as they try to scrap the system that brought Porter to book
By David Hencke /Friday, May 6th, 2011The Government is planning to abolish the system that brought to book Dame Shirley Porter, the flamboyant Conservative leader of Westminster Council, who was eventually fined £12 million for attempting to gerrymander the electorate in the infamous “homes for votes” scandal in the 1980s.
Campaigners accuse coalition of issuing ‘a licence to pollute
By Keith Richmond /Friday, May 6th, 2011The Conservative-led coalition’s “lax” approach to protecting the environment is giving Britain’s privatised water companies a “licence to pollute” according to green campaigners.