On the face of it, now does not seem a particularly appropriate time for Labour to reassert its pro-European credentials. The eurozone is in the throes of a giant crisis that it is only beginning to get under control and could yet end in disaster, and the prospects of Britain joining it any time soon [...]
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Labour must stay clear of withdrawal method and not flirt with Euroscepticism
By Paul Anderson /Friday, October 28th, 2011Housing horrors: this crisis needs action
By Ken Livingstone /Friday, October 28th, 2011There is a housing crisis in London and, in dealing with it, we must no longer overlook the private rented sector. Over recent months, I have been travelling to every corner of London, spending a full day in 22 boroughs. By January, I’ll have done the same in every single London borough. In each place, [...]
Kelly should cast his eye on these conclusions about party political funding
By Ian Aitken /Friday, October 28th, 2011Broadly speaking, everyone knows what the Conservative Party stands for. It stands for the monarchy, private property, the armed services (at least until the advent of George Osborne) and the established church. But for upwards of 100 years it has also stood, less publicly but no less determinedly, for the destruction of the Labour Party’s [...]
Why Tribune faces closure next week
By Tribune Editorial /Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Tribune is to cease publication in its 75th year. Unless arrangements can be found for new ownership or funding within days, the last edition will be next week, November 4
Enduring dreams and the stuff of nightmares
By Ian Williams /Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Last weekend, the Martin Luther King memorial was unveiled in Washington, evoking his speech “I have a dream”. I was having a dream too, but mine wandered between nightmare and “déjà vu all over again”. Unlike many on the left in the United States, when I see President Barack Obama I see a fundamentally decent [...]
You don’t have to be mad to work there – but they are
By Martin Rowson /Saturday, October 22nd, 2011After Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramon Mercador, was sentenced to the maximum 20-year stretch for murder in 1940, his Mexican captors were intrigued by his tight-lipped response to their questions. Assuming that there must be some deeper motivations for Mercador’s tryst with destiny and an ice-pick, they sent in a psychiatrist to tease them out. The [...]
Paul Routledge
By Paul Routledge /Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Which came first – our flawed media or our flawed democracy?
Gospel according to St Paul’s protesters
By Tribune Editorial /Friday, October 21st, 2011There’s a kind of crush, all over the world.
Chris Proctor
By Chris Proctor /Sunday, October 16th, 2011Who will shed a tear for the obscenely rich?
Candle in the wind for the health service while Glover gives the Tories a hand
By Ian Aitken /Saturday, October 15th, 2011I sometimes like to imagine that the great and the good in the Labour Party actually read what I write, and the sacking of John Healey as the party’s spokesman on the National Health Service led me to think that perhaps they do. I have more than once suggested in this column that Healey was [...]