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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 8, 2008
Around this time last year, Gordon Brown was facing the first economic challenge of his premiership: trying to fend off the collapse of the Northern Rock bank. The episode saw the first run on a British bank for nearly …
Also tagged: uk, royal bank of scotland, gordon brown, hbos, bailout, business and consumerism, uk bailout, nationalise banks, tim soutphommasane, financial socialism
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 7, 2008
After months of turmoil, scandal and volatility, the Centenary rugby league season is now over and the difficulties both on and off the field for the Melbourne Storm have ended in the most unfortunate way — a …
Also tagged: drugs in sport, rugby league, nrl, civil society, blogwatch
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 7, 2008
It may surprise you to hear this, but Fidel Castro is not the most popular person in Cuba. Nor is Raul Castro, for that matter, or Hugo Chávez. And nor are any of the members of the Cuban baseball team, even though …
Also tagged: travel, cuba, havana, international affairs, dan fitzgerald, jiniterismo
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 6, 2008
If Barack Obama were campaigning to be the president of France he would be elected tomorrow, according to one senior French journalist. Jean Lesieur, an executive producer for French TV station France 24, paused for …
Also tagged: france, john mccain, barack obama, george w bush, usa, international affairs, us election, european politics, sam davies
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 3, 2008
The lack of publicly funded leave for mothers to give birth and early nurture sends a deeply disturbing signal about the Australian political ethos, given the widespread acceptance of similar payments in both similar …
Also tagged: parental leave, paid maternity leave, civil society, australian politics, eva cox
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 1, 2008
The independent NSW MP and Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore appeared before the state’s inquiry into electoral and political funding in April 2008. In the midst of the unfolding Wollongong scandal involving property …
Also tagged: campaign finance, the greens, australian politics, nsw politics, property developers, norman thompson, city of sydney
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 30, 2008
In February 2008, the Brookings Institution of Washington, DC, hosted an exercise in moral abstraction with the title "The US-Pakistan Strategic Relationship". The panel at this event consisted largely of old friends …
Also tagged: afghanistan, pakistan, us foreign policy, tariq ali, international affairs, benazir bhutto, asif ali zardari
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 28, 2008
The streets of Islamabad’s "Blue Area" are typically wide, straight boulevards lined with greenery and the mansions of diplomats and politicians. In one such street is a simple but large house rendered in plain white …
Also tagged: pakistan, international affairs, mustafa qadri, women in pakistan, acid survivors foundation, saraiki belt, northwestern frontier
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 25, 2008
Why is the sight of a distressed floor trader somehow more upsetting than a farmer being forced to sell up or the redundancy of employees who worked for a company for 20 plus years? read more
Also tagged: wall street, economics, crash, stock market, business and consumerism, bob dumpling
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 25, 2008
As expected, the Labor Party did extremely badly in the NSW local Government elections on 13 September. They polled particularly poorly in the inner city of Sydney. This area, which comprises five state seats, is …
Also tagged: labor, candidate, australian politics, nsw politics, clover moore, lord mayor, city of sydney, meredith burgmann