Archive for September, 2011

The Holocaust – a German dream or European project

By David Mathieson /Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Hitler’s Foreign Executioners:
Europe’s Dirty Secret
by Christopher Hale
The History Press, £25

Lowest of the low are in the feral elite

By Martin Rowson /Sunday, September 25th, 2011

One of the late, great Robert Robinson’s weirder claims to fame was that when the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say “fuck” on British television in November 1965, Robinson was sitting next to him in the studio.

By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Cartoon by Gary Barker. More at TribuneCartoons.com

And now for something completely different

By Aleks Sierz /Saturday, September 24th, 2011

No Naughty Bits
Hampstead Theatre, London

The arrogance of bankers and lessons for Labour from global financial crisis

By Stephen Beer /Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11 by Alistair Darling
Atlantic Books, £19.99

All bets are off on another financial calamity

By Prem Sikka /Saturday, September 24th, 2011

The banking crisis has been making headlines for the past three years. Bankers indulged in an orgy of irresponsibility, gambled other people’s money, lied about the quality of their products, published opaque and misleading accounts and collected telephone number salaries.

Behind the wheel on a violent road

By Patrick Mulcahy /Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Drive
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

A Lonely Place to Die
Director: Julian Gilbey

Ed’s up for Labour conference

By Joe Irvin /Friday, September 23rd, 2011

A year ago, Ed Miliband confounded pundits and emerged triumphant as the new Labour leader. At the 2011 Labour conference, he faces challenges of public perception, party and policies.

Cameron’s actions give him pride of place in hypocrites’community

By Paul Routledge /Friday, September 23rd, 2011

The sight of David Cameron offering crocodile tears for the lost miners of the South Wales disaster was enough to make me throw up.

The history that Labour must reclaim

By Lisa Nandy /Friday, September 23rd, 2011

As Labour seeks new directions, the party is awash with a rainbow of policy pamphlets: Blue Labour, Purple Labour, Red Labour and doubtless more to come.