How science still plays second fiddle to politics in the global warming debate
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Alistair Darling interviewed
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, July 23rd, 2009The Government is taking the right decisions on Afghanistan, the economy and Britain’s future, the Chancellor tells Chris McLaughlin
Tory council accused of return to gerrymandering
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, July 17th, 2009Tory councillors have been accused of “social cleansing” working class tenants following the discovery of documents revealing plans to gerrymander votes.
Licence to kill or renew
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, July 11th, 2009Public service broadcasting is under threat from new Government proposals, warns Ivor Gaber Good news, bad news is one way of describing the Government’s Digital Britain report launched last month. The good news comes in the positive recommendations the report contains for making high-speed broadband access available for virtually the whole of Britain by 2012. [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Prison doesn’t work, so Labour must now become the party of penal reform, argues David Wilson Prison doesn’t work, so Labour must now become the party of penal reform, argues David Wilson How we can escape the prison mindset Our prisons are in crisis. The prison population soared to an all-time high of almost 84,000 [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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Tribune Comment: Order! Order! Parliament’s pantomime season
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 25th, 2009The House of Commons has had its Alice Through the Looking Glass moment. But it remains in its own little wonderland. The belittling, sixth-form level election of the Speaker provided an engaging distraction for MPs disengaged and seemingly unable to re-engage with the outside world.
Iran: a revolution within a revolution
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009The green revolution refuses to die away. Following the about-face by the Council of Guardians on the general election count, the entire superstructure of Iran’s complex political regime is under question.
Editorial: it’s time to do the right thing
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 11th, 2009We start from where we are. Events could have taken a dramatically different turn before Gordon Brown’s confessorial resurrection before the court of the Parliamentary Labour Party. But the time for further speculation is over.
Tribune Comment: The perfect political storm
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 4th, 2009Earlier this week, even before the bolts were drawn back on the polling booths for the masses to take their revenge on the political class and the Cabinet went into voluntary liquidation, Gordon Brown was pictured head bowed, shoulders hunched, cross-fingered hands resting limply on knees. Behind and above on a red backdrop were the words “Britain’s Future”, and below that Labour and the party’s red rose logo. It was a graphic image of a stultified politics.