Glyn Ford MEP on how the expenses scandal strengthens the far right
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It used to be the Thames that stank!
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, May 21st, 2009Chris McLaughlin describes the momentous events behind the scenes which led to Michael Martin’s resignation and Gordon Brown’s pledge to clean up the whole parliamentary system
Tribune Comment: Make no allowances for elite’s greed
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, May 15th, 2009JOHN ROBERT CLYNES knew something about the hardship of life and the impossibility of making ends meet as a Labour MP. The son of a labourer, he began work in a cotton mill when he was 10 years old, became involved in the nascent trade union movement, was elected to the House of Commons among the first-ever elected Labour MPs in 1906, went on to be leader of the Labour Party – for just one year – and Home Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald in 1929.
Fear and loathing marks Thailand’s malicious monarchy
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, May 7th, 2009Thailand’s monarchy is an affront to democracy. James Anstruther reports on how King Bhumibol Adulyadej crushes all dissent
May Day! for Labour
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, May 1st, 2009Labour can still recover before the election, says Paul Flynn, but any splits would be suicidal
India’s election: big vote, small change
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, April 23rd, 2009As India’s general election gets underway, Kailash Chand predicts an uncertain outcome and proposes a presidential solution
Tribune Comment: Labour’s shameful smear
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, April 16th, 2009THE available supply of condemnatory superlatives has been exhausted. There is no mitigation for the lurid emails which leave a stench of moral decomposition as the flies buzz around Downing Street. As Paul Anderson says on page 13, it is impossible to exaggerate the damage done to the Labour Party.
Can the pirate fat cats be winkled out of their safe havens?
By Tribune Web Editor /Tuesday, April 14th, 2009The G20’s plan to tackle banking secrecy is a small step in the right direction, says Prem Sikka
Ed Balls: Professionalism and moral purpose are our focus
By Tribune Web Editor /Wednesday, April 8th, 2009THE Easter holiday means a short break for many people, but for hundreds of teachers (and the odd minister), it also spells the start of the teaching union conference season.
Tribune Comment: Going down…
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Remember the dying days of the John Major Government, with its remorseless tales of sleaze, the way the nation longed to be rid of a hapless Prime Minister with little apparent ability to control his own party and little sign of an identifiable political direction? Oh, how we longed for change.