How to Solve a Problem Like Productivity
British productivity has been stagnating for years. But what if the solution lies in empowering workers — and making people happy and healthy — rather than in narrow economic fixes?
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Israel in the Cold
Israel’s absence in recent negotiations between Trump, Hamas, and Middle Eastern leaders marks a crossroads in the US-Israeli relationship. Is Netanyahu losing support in Washington for his genocidal campaign?
Choosing Victory
As our new issue, ‘Facing the Future Again,’ is released, incoming Tribune editor Alex Niven argues that the time for disillusioned nitpicking is over — the Left must now stand in populist, militant, unified opposition to the surging far-right.
Will the Margins Now Turn Right?
The rise of a new far-right Catalan nationalist party is a sinister development in European politics, showing how voters wearied by inequality and frustrated by failed devolution projects are seeking solace in blood-and-soil populism.
As I Please: Spirit of 2025
Keir Starmer’s media cheerleaders said he would replicate the quiet radicalism of Clement Attlee once in power. But one year into an inactive, often inaudible Labour administration, comparisons with the 1945 government seem absurd.
After Captain Tom
The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?
Airbrushing the Ghettoes
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
Erik Satie for the People
The elusive French composer is the subject of a freewheeling new Ian Penman book and an intense, eighteen-hour performance directed by Marina Abramovic. How seriously should we take their versions of the Satie myth?
Fiddling While Rome Burns
A new book about Trump’s 2024 election victory is a profoundly unsettling account of the Democratic Party machinery’s refusal to respect their own voters or offer any answers to America’s problems beyond maintaining the status quo.
Tony Benn’s Ongoing Relevance
A new anthology of Tony Benn’s writings and speeches highlights the radical democratic instincts and internationalist vision that have helped define British socialism this century.
Baggins of Downing Street
In delivering his toxic ‘Island of Strangers’ speech on immigration earlier this week, Keir Starmer aligned with a bizarre conservative tendency inspired in equal measure by Enoch Powell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Landlords Never Really Die
Since its publication last year, Nick Bano’s book 'Against Landlords' has generated much debate about the housing crisis — and laid the ground for a new trend in left publishing.