The Gambling Act Review Is a Chance to Stand up to the Bookies
The government’s review into the outdated 2005 Gambling Act offers a chance to challenge the predatory gambling industry – but first, Labour must tackle its own pro-bookie lobby.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Socialist Architecture for the Work-From-Home Age
In the 1920s, socialist architect Josef Frank designed homes to maximise freedom – informed by an understanding that workers need the space to separate their work from the rest of their lives.
Class, Taste and Sour Grapes
Last month, Rudy Kurniawan was released after seven years in prison for passing off cheap fakes as fine wine – a crime punished, above all, for exposing ruling class pretensions about taste.
Keeping Unsafe Schools Open Is Ideological
This week the government issued legal threats against a London council for closing schools – showing that it values profits more than the lives of workers, students and their families.
How Being Exploited at Work Undermines Your Mental Health
A new study shows that exploitative working conditions have severe impacts on mental health – and makes the case for empowering workers through unions and workplace democracy.
Covid-19 Has Revived Britain’s Teachers’ Unions
Faced with a reckless government that disregarded teacher and student health, unions like the NEU set out to fight back – and, in the process, built grassroots organisation that empowers workers.
India’s Farmer Revolt
India’s government is trying to force through a corporate takeover of its agricultural sector – but their plans have met fierce resistance from the country’s farmers, who are refusing to hand over their livelihoods.
How North Sea Oil Shaped Britain’s Economy
When Thatcher’s government inherited the emerging riches of North Sea oil, it pioneered ‘carbon neoliberalism’ – a model of managing public goods for private interests that soon became the norm.
A Victory for the NHS Against Corporate Trade Deals
This week’s House of Lords vote to keep the NHS out of future trade deals was a victory for the hundreds of thousands of people who fought plans to put public healthcare on the international market.
Tory Cuts Are Causing a Sexual Health Crisis
England’s sexual health services have had their funding slashed by 25% in the past five years, leaving clinics and other services severely understaffed. It is an avoidable crisis – entirely caused by Tory government policies.
How Britain’s Lifestyle Magazines Went Tory
Recent months have seen Britain’s fashion magazines running articles that could have come straight from Conservative Party HQ. It’s just the latest right-wing turn in a billionaire-owned media landscape.
I Was a Teenage Derridean
A new biography of the French philosopher reveals a core of political seriousness in his work. But why was he so popular in the universities of the 1980s and 1990s?
An Open Letter to Keir Starmer and David Evans
A CLP chair writes an open letter to Labour’s leader and general secretary arguing that their restrictions are undermining political debate and democracy in the party – and placing its volunteers in impossible positions.
Yes, Britain’s Politics Are Uniquely Bad
From the bungling of Covid-19 to economic policies written for a tiny elite and a cosy relationship with a supine press, Britain’s political landscape is more of a wasteland when viewed from neighbouring countries.
The Truth About Fake News
Writer Marcus Gilroy-Ware speaks to Tribune about real-life conspiracies, healthy suspicion versus naïve optimism, and the liberal complacency that underlies the post-truth world.
How Grey Was Communism?
Communist states in Eastern Europe were imagined as places drained of all colour, outside of time – but it’s increasingly clear they were a lot more colourful than we were led to believe.
When Margaret Thatcher Privatised Social Care
Many of those using private care services today would once have been cared for by the NHS. Now they are at the mercy of profiteers, and for one reason – Thatcher’s pro-market reforms of Britain’s health system.
How Health Inequality Drove Britain’s Covid Disaster
Britain has been one of the world’s worst hit states for Covid-19 deaths, and it’s no accident. Public health cuts have left deep inequalities – and the areas most impacted have the highest death tolls.
How Covid Turned Cashiers into Carers
As months of social isolation continue, retail staff are finding their jobs shifting from customer service to caring – a sign of depleted social infrastructure caused by ruthless cutbacks.
17. Municipal Socialism: An Interview with Owen Hatherley
This week, Grace speaks to author and Tribune culture editor Owen Hatherley about socialism in local government, regional inequalities, and the past and future of the Labour Party.