Is the British Labour Party the only movement capable of organising a realistic cross-community official opposition in the Stormont Assembly to check the ever-growing advance of the reigning Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein-dominated Executive? With liberal politics the order of the day in Northern Ireland, the natural opposition should come from a coalition of [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Looking for alternatives to a failed system
By Trevor Fisher /Saturday, October 29th, 2011The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism by Colin Crouch
Polity, £14.99
Economic justice must be done – and it must be seen to be done
By Dave Tucker /Saturday, October 29th, 2011Two years on from the supposed “end” of the financial crisis, the economic outlook continues to worsen for the vast majority of ordinary people. Unemployment, particularly among young people, has reached record highs following government austerity programmes, while inflation continues to rocket. At the European level, the eurozone itself is in crisis and is being [...]
Big bags and itchy fingers of colonial collectors in the High Victorian Age
By Robert Giddings /Saturday, October 29th, 2011Magpies, Squirrels & Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World
by Jacqueline Yallop
Atlantic Books, £25
Ninety-nine per cent need a Pauline conversion from a system in a crisis
By Cary Gee /Saturday, October 29th, 2011Most modern movements coalesce around a clearly stated objective – “Stop the War’, “Nuclear Disarmament”, “End Tuition Fees”, which is at once easily reduced to a slogan and quickly grasped by the mainstream media as something that will cease to exist beyond a finite point. The tented protest against capitalist inequality outside St Paul’s Cathedral [...]
Survival plan agreed for Tribune
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, October 28th, 2011Staff, management and the National Union of Journalists have agreed a last-minute plan to stave off closure of Tribune.
Hank’s for the memory
By Joe Cushnan /Friday, October 28th, 2011The Thing About Hank
Radio 4
Tonight
Radio 4
Billions of blue blistering barnacles
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, October 28th, 2011 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Real Steel
Director: Shawn Levy
Postcards from the metafictional edge
By Lucy Popescu /Friday, October 28th, 2011Funeral for a Dog
by Thomas Pletzinger
WW Norton & Co, £9.99
The Tories have caused this calamity
By Michael Burke /Friday, October 28th, 2011George Osborne and other Tories, and their supporters in the media, are now promoting the idea that the stagnation of the British economy is a function of the turmoil in the eurozone economy and financial markets. The main channel for economic weakness in the eurozone to be expressed in British economic activity is via exports. [...]