I put this night on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social. Come and stroke your chin and drink loads of pints.

Attention North Easterners! These events put on by @pdkmitchell.bsky.social, @leighsus.bsky.social and @alexniven.bsky.social look great.

Young people are facing one of the toughest job markets in decades: there has been a 33 percent drop in graduate job listings compared to this time last year. Read Tribune staff writer Grace Blakeley on the cost of living crisis.

As our new issue, ‘Beyond Decline’, is released, Tribune editor Alex Niven argues collective hope is the antidote to societal despair and the key to recovering the soul of socialism.

#GreyLabour was (I think) first elaborated by Tribune's editor @alexniven.bsky.social in February 2024 - spot on Alex. The latest article is behind a paywall, sorry, but you can read Alex's piece here: tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/grey... tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/grey...

I’m in this! Spoke to Chal Ravens about newness in music 15 years on from Retromania, AirPods, the new Niontay album and other things, I’m really proud of how it came out

toot toot new tribune! i'm inside writing about philippa snow's excellent new book it's terrible the things i have to do to be me, which looks at the female celebrity as a monstrous magnifier of her civilian counterparts. buy a magazine!

Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week. Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...

A few weeks before Palestine Action was proscribed in Britain, anti-fascist French organisation Jeune Garde suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Macron government. Is Europe’s extreme centre trying to eradicate left activism? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/is-b...

Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

The long-shuttered cottage forge is the last remnant of a remarkable industrial experiment, the legacy of which should be written in iron, but is barely known. Paul Brown on Winlaton's claim as the foundation of the industrial revolution.

It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.

Ahead of this weekend's Durham Miners' Gala, I wrote about the birthplace of the working class for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/dmg-...

In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling to dust.

The next edition of the semi-regular culture night I put on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social is only two days away and tickets are flying out. I'll be asking @garethdennis.uk all about trains!

My interview with @alexniven.bsky.social for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social earlier this year talking #WorkandPlay tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/dave...

As Oasis embarks on their 2025 reunion tour, @alexniven.bsky.social looks back to where it all began. Definitely Maybe check it out: bit.ly/3ZSeDud 💙📚 #MusicSky @3313books.bsky.social @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.

As the government designates Palestine Action a 'terrorist' group, @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social argues that MPs wouldn’t be here without the right to protest – and that this authoritarian crackdown must end now. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/jere...

The government’s move to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act is due to their effectiveness in disrupting genocide — and erodes the basis for dissent that all democratic societies need. An attack on Palestine Action is an attack on you. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/an-a...

While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?

After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven development and reverse postindustrial decline?

Oasis back. Pulp back. Blur, already been back and gone again... But is Britpop still a dirty word? Tomorrow: Join me @foylesforbooks.bsky.social with @alexniven.bsky.social & Jane Savidge on their @333books.bsky.social on Definitely Maybe and This is Hardcore 👇 www.foyles.co.uk/events/33-1/...

In our recent issue, ‘Facing the Future Again,’ Tribune culture editor Fergal Kinney explains how corporate consolidation is at the heart of the music industry's problems. Click below to read the full piece, now out from the paywall.

In the past few years, British health workers have faced smears, targeted media attacks, and workplace persecution — all for the simple act of expressing support for Palestine.

The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?

my Tribune review of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine now free to read. Is Spotify evil? Yes! But is this also very convenient cover for the three major labels consolidating power and sucking money out of the industry? Yes!

fantastic evisceration of a widely celebrated, posh gentleman farmer polemic by @lucythraves.bsky.social for Tribune, with perceptive reflections about the Right to Roam campaign

I reviewed a new book about land access by a writer purporting to be a neutral observer to that debate. It turns out, that's a lie.

North East ppl, come to this!

FRIDAY 4TH JULY. LORT BURN SPECIALS RETURNS. A Q&A with rail engineer and author @garethdennis.bsky.social plus live music and readings from others. At @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social in Newcastle. Tickets here: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...

This devastating review of Patrick Galbraith’s Uncommon Ground by @lucythraves.bsky.social could burn the heather on a thousand grouse moors

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

Yesterday’s Spending Review is another example of how the government is trying to muddle on through, leaving core services like social care underfunded, the wealth of the rich undertaxed, and millions of us exposed to worsening instability and insecurity.

‘Today, Greenland is being reimagined as a colonial frontier of a different sort, and a people who seem finally to be on the brink of independence are being threatened with re-annexation.’ Click below to read the full piece from Aaron Rosenberg.

The campaign to annex Greenland has provided one of the weirder subplots of Trump’s second presidential term. Was this harebrained colonialist episode anticipated in a now forgotten novel by two modernist masters?

Margaret Thatcher famously identified Blair as her greatest political achievement. Starmer might yet come to represent a similar victory for Nigel Farage.

ICYMI, myself and the other Lort Burn Specials conspirators (@alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social) announced the latest event in our contribution to North East culture. I'll be talking to rail engineer and author @garethdennis.bsky.social about all things rail! Come down!

‘In fact, the strengthening of the war economy goes hand in hand with ongoing attempts to crush worker power, boost profits, and extend the state’s power over citizens.’ Grace Blakeley on the false promises of Military Keynesianism.

In our new issue, ‘Facing the Future Again,’ Tribune staff writer Grace Blakeley argues that Labour's turn towards rearmament under a new ‘military Keynesianism’ means more profits for weapons manufacturers and more authority for capitalist states — and more authority for capitalist states.

‘For socialists in both countries, however, it’s never been clearer that the parties’ respective approaches are dead ends, failing in even the basic task of labourism: protecting working-class interests.’ Ben Conway on the uncanny and underwhelming similarities between Starmer and Albanese.

As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and infuriating.

“What we need is a radical programme of investment in the social infrastructure that underpins productivity: universal childcare, health and social care, housing, education and training, and high-quality public transport.” *”It means treating public services as the engines of long-term prosperity.”*

British productivity has been stagnating for years. But what if the solution lies in empowering workers – and making people happy and healthy more generally – rather than in narrow economic fixes?

A really powerful, succinct précis of the productivity crisis and its possible exit routes by @graceblakeley.substack.com

Israel’s absence in recent negotiations between Trump, Hamas, and Middle Eastern leaders potentially signals a crossroads in the US-Israeli relationship, as the genocidal campaign might be losing Washington’s interest.

I've written in the new Tribune about the cultural memory of WW2, Capt Sir Tom of blessèd memory, anxious nostalgias and the shifting meanings of the antifascist struggle - and for a limited time only you can read it, and loads of stuff by better writers, for *only £5* for a digital subscription

Our new issue, Facing the Future Again, is out now! Grace Blakeley on military Keynesianism, Owen Hatherley on Japanese sci-fi, Pete Mitchell, Marcus Barnett, Jennifer Jasmine White & lots more. Discounted subscriptions for only £5 (digital) £15 (print): tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe?co...