Crisis in Korea: America, China and the Risk of War by Tim Beal
Pluto Press, £19.99
Archive for November, 2011
Korea opportunities – will China make Pyongyang safe for Market Leninism?
By Glyn Ford /Sunday, November 6th, 2011You can’t tackle poverty by making the poor poorer
By Cary Gee /Sunday, November 6th, 2011Since the coalition set about dismantling the welfare state, a strange and unnatural consensus has formed. Frontbench politicians from the left as well as the right, together with a supine media that long ago stopped asking pertinent questions, preferring instead to reiterate David Cameron and George Osborne’s big lie, have convinced a nervous public that [...]
New world under Western eyes
By Nathaniel Mehr /Saturday, November 5th, 2011Global Energy Security and American Hegemony by Doug Stokes
and Sam Raphael
Johns Hopkins University Press, £15.50
Crisis and resolution, recession and solution
By Julian Priestley /Saturday, November 5th, 2011After nearly two years of political grandstanding, market panics and botched bailouts, Europe’s debt crisis is rapidly approaching resolution. After 14 summits and thousands of hours spent in fetid rooms, the single currency is still in crisis but there seems to be a way forward. The capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility – the [...]
Tory cuts again target midwife services
By Jill Palmer /Saturday, November 5th, 2011Having a baby should be a time of joy. Yet financial cutbacks and shortages of midwives are filling mums-to-be with anxiety and alarm. Two weeks ago, a friend of mine gave birth to her first baby, after three days in labour and an emergency caesarean. Thankfully, both mother and baby are alive and well. But [...]
Windsors are disinterred with elegance and wit
By Aleks Sierz /Saturday, November 5th, 2011The Last of the Duchess
Hampstead Theatre, London
Pastor with arsenal, unheavenly Kevin
By Patrick Mulcahy /Friday, November 4th, 2011Machine Gun Preacher
Director: Marc Forster
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Director: Lynne Ramsey
That was then, this is now and this must be the future
By Geoffrey Goodman /Friday, November 4th, 2011It was shortly after the end of the Second World War, circa 1946, when I returned to Fleet Street to join that once great liberal daily newspaper, News Chronicle as a reporter. And it was also my first introduction as a contributor to Tribune. Sometime later, Michael Foot took over as editor from Jon Kimche [...]
The smell of rebellion in the air and the stench of Conservative revolt
By Paul Routledge /Friday, November 4th, 2011So much for David Cameron’s new entente cordiale with the north of England. Tyke Tory MPs turned out in force to humiliate him on Malice Monday at Westminster when more than half the Government’s back-benchers joined the anti-Europe rebellion. Support for the revolt from his long-time right-wing rival David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) was only [...]
Nothing’s forgotten, nothing’s ever forgotten, so let’s hope it isn’t gone
By Ian Aitken /Friday, November 4th, 2011I have strong personal as well as political reasons for being profoundly relieved that this may not be, after all, my last column for Tribune. It was Tribune, under its then editor Robert J Edwards, which gave me my start in journalism almost 60 years ago. I learned my trade from Bob, and from various [...]