Archive for August, 2011
Battle of Vera Brittain versus George Orwell
By Richard Westwood /Sunday, August 7th, 2011Richard Westwood recalls a wartime falling out between two major figures of the left and how George Orwell’s views have been misrepresented
Alex Hughes’ view
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, August 7th, 2011Cartoon by Alex Hughes. More at TribuneCartoons.com
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Cartoon by Gary Barker. More at TribuneCartoons.com
Candid camera, lost in translation
By Patrick Mulcahy /Saturday, August 6th, 2011Super 8
Director: JJ Abrams
French connection proves fruitful for documentarians
By Neil Young /Saturday, August 6th, 2011Festival International Documentaire, Marseille
Heaven and Hell
By Lucy Popescu /Saturday, August 6th, 2011Dante in Love by AN Wilson
Atlantic Books, £25
Keeping left on the Christian road – the radical socialist tradition of RH Tawney
By Roddy Matthews /Saturday, August 6th, 2011The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of
RH Tawney by Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray
Imprint Academic, £40
Ian Aitken
By Ian Aitken /Saturday, August 6th, 2011With the right in the ascendant, St Vince is again the hope of the world
Defra declines to act over slaughterhouse despite overwhelming evidence
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Friday, August 5th, 2011A controversial case of animal abuse at a British slaughterhouse will not be prosecuted by the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs – fuelling suspicion that the Conservative-led Government is exacting “revenge” on the animal welfare lobby for the ban on hunting with dogs.