Archive for June, 2011

Taking on the Tories

By Robert Giddings /Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Dole Not Coal: The 1984-85 Miners’ Strike – The Strikers’ Story
Compress Media, £12.99

Radical ideas implicit in the Jeffersonian democracy on which the US was founded

By Belinda Webb /Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

The Paul Goodman Reader
edited by Taylor Stoehr
PM Press, £21.99

Captain Cook – explorer, sailor and cartographer par excellence or evil white imperialist?

By Joe Cushnan /Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas by Frank McLynn
Yale University Press, £25

UK economy stalled, prospects downgraded

By Bernard Purcell /Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Britain’s economic prospects were downgraded by the ONS, OECD and China’s main credit rating agency as concerns increased about the country’s stalled economy’s ability to tackle its deficit.

Prescott gets go-ahead to challenge police investigation

By Bernard Purcell /Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, and three others including an MP, a journalist and a former Met Police assistant commissioner, were granted permission by a High Court judge to challenge Scotland Yard’s investigation into claims their telephones and personal communications had been intercepted by News International’s News of the World.