Those who caused the financial meltdown will make matters worse if they are allowed to try to sort it out
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Turning a crisis into a catastrophe
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Football’s own goals: we all pay the penalty
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Largely unregulated English football clubs constitute cloud cuckoo land capitalism at its worst. Stephen Kelly investigates
Obituary: Mervyn Jones, 1922-2010
Friday, March 5th, 2010Mervyn Jones, who died on February 23 at the age of 87, was a widely respected journalist, novelist and socialist who wrote an acclaimed and authorised biography of Michael Foot, a man Mervyn first met when Michael hired him as a reporter for Tribune in 1955. Mervyn became one of Michael’s closest friends. In his authorised biography, published in 1994, he described Michael as “the man who saved the Labour Party”.
Michael Foot, 1913-2010
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010To chronicle the life of Michael Foot, who died on Wednesday aged 96, is to embrace the canvas of 20th century British radicalism, says Geoffrey Goodman
Greece: austerity is the word
Monday, March 1st, 2010Greece is being forced to accept savage spending cuts, but the real problem is tax avoidance by the rich, says Michael Burke
Change won’t come out of the barrel of a gun
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The Afghan conundum goes back centuries before 9/11, argues Tam Dalyell
Look back in anger to the ’80s
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Mining, manufacturing and Mandelson: Geoffrey Goodman looks at the legacies of Thatcherism
‘We will fight every inch of the way for victory’
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Chris McLaughlin talks to the Prime Minister about crises, cuts, taxes, Tories – and the forthcoming electoral contest
Democracy frozen out while Canada awaits Olympic glory
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Jim Mallory reports from Canada on the Prime Minister’s sidelining of Parliament
Greek tragedy rocks Europe
Friday, February 12th, 2010Terry Moore on how speculators fuelled Greece’s financial crisis