Features
Running out of political steam
The rise and ultimate demise of the formidable Ken Livingstone
Martin Rowson
Friday 04 May 2012
Editorial
Poverty of thought
Thursday 06 April 2006
SERVICEABLE Labour chairman Ian McCartney expressed his hope at the party's local election manifesto launch that "the body language experts will have a particularly fruitful day" - referring to the latest public display of "unity" between Brown and Blair.
Damn the two of you
Wednesday 05 April 2006
IF the present division between the Blairite: "Let them have their pension linked to earnings, but work them till they drop so they can't collect it" line and the Treasury's Brownite: "We can't afford to link pensions to wages because we don't trust in our ability to hold down inflation" chant is the best that this government can do to defend the living standards of the elderly, they might as well all pack their bags and sod off back to where they came from.
Tawdry fantasies
Tuesday 04 April 2006
WHEN Tony and Charles were little lads, never dreaming that one day they would become, respectively, Prime Minister and Home Secretary, they almost certainly participated in playground games in which they figured as crime-fighting superheroes.
Just stop digging
Monday 03 April 2006
WHAT a wonderful weekend it's been for watching the so-called leaders of our so-called democracy floundering around, trying to extricate themselves from the hole that they've dug for themselves over party funding by frantically digging faster.
A farcical charade
Saturday 01 April 2006
THE British government talks tough in international forums about enforcing respect for international law, but, when it come to its own jurisdiction, its nerve fails.
It's better than work
Friday 31 March 2006
IT is always a mistake to rely on the noble twits in the House of Lords to sustain resistance against the depredations of this government.
One-sided coverage
Thursday 30 March 2006
PALESTINIANS may well wonder if they inhabit the same planet as the commentators who set the scene for the Israeli general election and then evaluated its results.
Glittering solidarity
Wednesday 29 March 2006
GORDON Brown's decision to plough grim-faced and wordless through a local authority workers' picket line ought to put the kibosh on attempts to paint him as the trade unions' man at the heart of new Labour.
Cock-eyed world view
Tuesday 28 March 2006
TONY Blair's assessments of world events increasingly read like extracts from Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Inbuilt sexism
Monday 27 March 2006
WHEN Labour was in elected in 1997, it promised to move the equality agenda forward, but, despite one or two early initiatives, equality has played second fiddle, at best, to the private profits agenda.