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Here is an image from 1838 tweaked for the modern Royal Mail, the planned* strike and the increasingly regal Lord Mandelson. There is some useful context to issues around the service and the industrial dispute available from the BBC. Billy Hayes, leader of the Communication Workers Union has a public say in the Mirror and the FT looks at the bigger picture and the value of the Mail as a saleable asset after the next election.
If it wasn’t the ‘Royal’ Mail does anyone think the organisation would still be in public hands after the past thirty years of privatisations?
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There is an instructive story going on today about the relationship between these four apparently distinct things. The Spectator Magazine briefly reports on it here. There’s a cartoon about the attempts to use a legal injunction or gag, on The Guardian Media Group here too.
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In the FTGideon Rachman offers a short analysis of the Conservative conference and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne’s speech. James Landale offers a longer round up for the BBC.
The full text of the Shadow Chancellor’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference. It is interesting to compare today’s meat from the bone (his candour about what is coming with a Conservative government) with what he said in September while the thinking was going on. Links via Craig Elder and The Guardian.
