Mervyn Jones, who died on February 23 at the age of 87, was a widely respected journalist, novelist and socialist who wrote an acclaimed and authorised biography of Michael Foot, a man Mervyn first met when Michael hired him as a reporter for Tribune in 1955. Mervyn became one of Michael’s closest friends. In his authorised biography, published in 1994, he described Michael as “the man who saved the Labour Party”.

To chronicle the life of Michael Foot, who died on Wednesday aged 96, is to embrace the canvas of 20th century British radicalism, says Geoffrey Goodman

Greece is being forced to accept savage spending cuts, but the real problem is tax avoidance by the rich, says Michael Burke

The Afghan conundum goes back centuries before 9/11, argues Tam Dalyell

Mining, manufacturing and Mandelson: Geoffrey Goodman looks at the legacies of Thatcherism

Chris McLaughlin talks to the Prime Minister about crises, cuts, taxes, Tories – and the forthcoming electoral contest

Jim Mallory reports from Canada on the Prime Minister’s sidelining of Parliament

Terry Moore on how speculators fuelled Greece’s financial crisis

• See also Tribune’s editorial

It’s a case of change your partners for the forthcoming elections in the Philippines, says Ken Fuller

The earthquake was only the latest catastrophe to hit Haiti. Hugh O’Shaughnessy looks back on two centuries of suffering