Today, 28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day (WMD) when the trade union movement and safety campaigners make it a day of action to defend health and safety from the attacks on regulation, enforcement, cuts and the refusal to tackle the massive toll that health and safety breaches take on workers. Health and our safety is under attack like never before and campaigners are determined to defend it, for our sake and that of future generations. Their slogan ‘Remember the dead, fight to the living’ says it all. Continue reading ‘Remember the dead – fight for the living’ »
Been here before…
A two week holiday in the Pyrenees (Rimont near Foix) provides a chance to catch up on my reading. The first book being tackled is Chris Mullin’s Decline and Fall Diaries 2005 – 2010. In many ways it’s the Labour Party’s answer to those of Alan Clark, whose diaries I greatly enjoyed.
Berlusconi still top earner
We have not been hearing too much about former Italian prime minister Silvo Berlusconi since he quit in November 2011. But a recent article in the weekly newspaper New Europe, a privately owned and independent publication which receives no financial support from the EU or other entity, revealed that the media magnate still tops the poll when it comes to earnings.