Keeping track of pirates

THIS rumour is possibly apocryphal, but deserves to be true, even if it isn’t. According to Last Word’s authoritative sources — OK, a trade union official we had a few beers with as the UK Labour Party conference opened in Brighton this weekend — there was something of a muddle over maritime security issues at the Trades Union Congress annual get together a couple of weeks back.

The way our man tells it, seafarer union Nautilus International and the Musicians’ Union submitted resolutions condemning piracy. Nautilus, of course, had in mind the deleterious situation in the Gulf of Aden, while the assorted rockers, jazzers and classical merchants...

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