Labour needs to remember the old adage that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
Archive for July, 2011
Good days to bury bad news about downturn, debt and deficit
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, July 15th, 2011As newspapers and broadcasters devoted record column inches and broadcast hours to the scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News International, at least one aspect of the “media reports on the media” frenzy may have been welcomed by Chancellor George Osborne as it obscured more bad news about the economy.
Labour leader pledges to face down Murdoch and News International ‘to the end’
By Chris McLaughlin /Friday, July 15th, 2011In the face of warnings that Labour will face “revenge” over his stand against Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the wholesale ownership of BSkyB party leader Ed Miliband has privately told his inner circle that he is determined “to see it through to the end”.
How India is paying for its new life in the fast lane
By Kailash Chand /Friday, July 8th, 2011The cancer of corruption could yet destabilise the world’s largest democracy
Forgive us our trespasses or deliver us from evil?
By Michael Bonnet /Friday, July 8th, 2011The Government plans to criminalise squatting. Will this solve or solve or exacerbate housing problems?
When they’re talking, they’re not fighting
By John Coulter /Friday, July 8th, 2011Who will speak for the voiceless Protestant working class in Northern Ireland?
Root and branch of Malick’s meditation
By Patrick Mulcahy /Friday, July 8th, 2011The Tree of Life
Director: Terrence Malick
Jack Goes Boating
Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman
They can still make you dance, sing or anything
By Cary Gee /Friday, July 8th, 2011Faces
Cornbury Festival 2011