VETERAN Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews on Labour’s latest travails: “There is a growing sense that we are part of a Shakespearean tragedy.†In fact, the play would appear to be The Comedy of Errors. One knack some ministers ought to get is speaking at the despatch box without shaking. After all, things can’t be that [...]
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Black cat, white cat, red cat catches mice
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, November 30th, 2007Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian PublicAffairs, £17.99 ZHOU ENLAI – Chou En-Lai in old money – was Prime Minister of China from the time the Communists took power in 1949 until his death in 1976. Reviled during his life by Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four, who would describe his [...]
Missile offence: Why Labour must oppose star wars
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, November 29th, 2007Cover story: Resist the return of Star Wars
Ben Folley says Britain must line up with its neighbours against US plans to station its missile defence system in Europe
Labour and the Media discussion
By Tribune Web Editor /Wednesday, May 14th, 2003May 14, 2003 “The culture of the BBC is anarchic, they are determined always to destroy. I think this is where the real poison lies today” JOE HAINES Ted Knight, hardleft candidate for Hornsey in 1979, was canvassing a street I an affluent Tory area when he came across a Labour supporter. ‘I have always [...]
Labour’s second term – lessons from history
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, July 1st, 2002(July 2002) Speakers included: * Dianne Hayter (Fabian Society General Secretary 1976-82) * Professor the Lord (Kenneth O) Morgan (historian and biographer of James Callaghan and biographer of James Callaghan). * Tom Sawyer (Labour Party General Secretary 1996-98)