by admin | Mar 17, 2011 | Europe, international
I’ve just returned from a few days holiday in Iceland. It’s an interesting country, dominated by the weather, the landscape, nature and still the aftermath of the financial collapse in 2008 which left one in five families bankrupt. We don’t read or hear much about the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2011 | international, unions
At last Friday’s European network meeting at the TUC we received an update of the continuing fight back against attacks on our pay, working conditions and social benefits across Europe. Protests against austerity continue in Greece and the first general strike of the...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, international, nuj
Free and independent news and information is essential in developing and defending democracy, the latest example is demonstrated courageously across North Africa and the Middle East right now. In this context, it is bizarre and inappropriate for the British government...
by admin | Feb 13, 2011 | international, nuj
Yesterday lunch-time a little of the Egyptian revolution came to London’s Trafalgar Square, when thousands of people came together to celebrate the fall of Mubarak who had fled Cairo some 24 hours before. Called by Amnesty International and supported by the TUC, the...
by admin | Feb 2, 2011 | international, Uncategorized
Just a one minute walk from the Dorchester in Park Lane (cocktails £15 in the bar) and located on the edge of Mayfair is the Egyptian Embassy. Situated in South Street opposite Balfour Mews, a bit of the Egyptian revolution has come to tranquil Mayfair. But as the...
by admin | Jan 29, 2011 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Press
Last week’s meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) held in Brussels we spent some time discussing the situation in Hungary following the introduction of controversial new media laws, which will seriously restrict the right to report and media freedom....
