At moments such as these, when all around we hear the echoes of unparalleled political confusion and uncertainty, I tend to ask myself a self-indulgent question: what would Aneurin Bevan have said about it? Still more important, what would he have done?
Archive for July, 2011
Time to cry God for Harry, England and St George
By Keith Richmond /Friday, July 1st, 2011Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan
and James Macintyre
Backbite Publishing, £17.99
Lennie backed by Ed Miliband for general secretary, as leader criticises public sector strike
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, July 1st, 2011In the same week that he came out against this week’s public sector strikes, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband signalled that he is seeking to further distance his leadership from the trade union movement towards a broader, undefined “squeezed middle” in his choice for the incoming general secretary of the party.
‘We can’t trust Government on health’, says BMA as it rejects ‘staggeringly wasetful’ restructuring
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, July 1st, 2011The British Medical Association – the doctors’ union – this week overwhelmingly rejected the coalition’s proposed NHS restructuring as “staggering wasteful” and said that the Government could not be trusted with the health service.
Guidelines for a good society
By Tribune Editorial /Friday, July 1st, 2011We live in a multi-personality society, with more than one version of “us” and “them”. At least that’s the way the Tory-led coalition and its right-wing supporters in the press would have it.
Martin Rowson
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, July 1st, 2011Cartoon by Martin Rowson. More at www.tribunecartoons.com