Comment

POSTAL workers may draw comfort from the fact that the proposal to open up Royal Mail to private investment is, for the moment, Postcomm chairman Nigel Stapleton's and his alone.

TRADE unionists should pause before giving a welcome to Gordon Brown's draft Queen's Speech proposals and wait to see the colour of his money.

HOUSING Minister Caroline Flint certainly exposed her lack of experience on Tuesday by wandering into a Cabinet meeting with an exposed set of speaker's notes and allowing photographers to snap - and subsequently enlarge and read - them.

HOW many times do we hear from employers that workers' decisions to take industrial action are unbelievable or premature because the employer is willing to talk?

WHAT an unappealing, self-obsessed, sleazy cabal the new Labour in crowd portrays itself as in their pre-election-oblivion recollections - as if we didn't already know it.

ISRAEL celebrated its 60th anniversary this week, but, for the dispossessed Palestinian people who paid the price for this new state, there is nothing to celebrate.

IT was, perhaps, inevitable that the current trials and tribulations of the Labour Party's embattled and politically compromised leadership would bring the Blairites out of their burrows, bleating for yet more of the neoliberal medicine that their departed hero dished out to an unsuspecting Britain.

WHAT is needed is not a review of the Serious Fraud Office inquiry into the al-Yamamah arms deal but the inquiry's immediate reinstatement.

GORDON Brown's claim to be a listening and learning leader will be put under daily scrutiny for as long as he occupies 10 Downing Street.

CABINET members queued up on Monday to pledge their loyalty to the Prime Minister as though the electorate would be impressed that this gang of brown-nosed toadies remains obsequious in the wake of last Thursday's disastrous election results.