The Palestinian Authority is to seek formal United Nations recognition for Palestine as a nation state in September despite opposition from Israel and a promised veto by the United States, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told reporters this week.
Archive for July, 2011
European Union Commission moves closer to adopting Tobin tax
By Ben Fox /Friday, July 1st, 2011The European Union has taken a further step towards adopting a tax on financial transactions after the European Commission proposed the introduction of an EU-wide financial sector tax with some of its revenues going directly to the EU budget as an “own resource”.
A dance to the music of time past, distillation of Mediterranean history as a Proustian notion
By Edward Pearce /Friday, July 1st, 2011Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
John Murray, £25
Essential trade union rights and freedoms are at risk
By Mark Metcalf /Friday, July 1st, 2011Extremist elements in Iraq’s new government have the country’s union movement in their sights
Dangerous alchemy with iniquitous private equity
By Ben Fox /Friday, July 1st, 2011The power and influence of capitalism in its purest and most
malign form is untamed
Speaking evil, hearing evil and doing evil
By Martin Rowson /Friday, July 1st, 2011I’m sure we’re all familiar with Hannah Ahrendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann as epitomising “the banality of evil”.
Shine on, but it’s not easy being green
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, July 1st, 2011Green Lantern
Director: Martin Campbell
A Separation
Director: Asghar Farhadi
There will be daytime telly in the pit of hell
By Emma Kelly /Friday, July 1st, 2011Loose Women
ITV 1
The Jeremy Kyle Show
ITV 1
Absurd is the word in scintillating restaging
By Aleks Sierz /Friday, July 1st, 2011Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
It was 30 years ago: Toxteth burned in a riot of its own
By Ian Williams /Friday, July 1st, 2011Thirty years ago, July 4 did not have much significance for me.