For those on the Right, free speech means the freedom to spread misinformation, fear, and hatred without being held to account. Read @adelewalton.bsky.social on the UK Online Safety Act.

The UK Online Safety Act aims to protect people online. Could the legislation reinstate the principles of free speech and preserve democratic debate?

The Starmer government is once again seeking to push through welfare cuts that will disproportionately harm society’s most vulnerable — a shameful contravention of the Labour Party’s moral mission that cannot be tolerated.

Behind rent sits a violent process of extraction, depriving most of agency and many of a place to call home. Read Lily Gordon Brown on abolishing rent.

A new book encourages people to reclaim their houses, cities and wages, with the ultimate goal of abolishing rent — but is it possible?

Despair can be a dangerous and hard emotion: it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to collectivism but, rather, to resentment, which can be a potent weapon for the far right. Read Dan Evans on localism.

Communities across Britain have been laid waste by decades of austerity and state cutback. As the Right claims to offer answers to the decline it initiated, can the Left develop a rival form of radical localism?

Public health measures are not a matter for ‘debate’ or starting a conversation; there are real-life consequences to spreading false rhetoric. Read Ammad Butt on the Reform UK conference.

Right-wing politicians and conspiracy theorists are fuelling an anti-expert agenda in Britain. Why is their misinformation seen as a path to power?

Public accountability does not begin and end with outrage; it becomes real through collective pressure. Read Nick Cosburn on the Gaza Tribunal.

This month’s Gaza Tribunal showed that Britain’s complicity in Israeli devastation in Palestine threatens us all. If Westminster won’t deliver accountability, the public must.

Public toilets are under attack in many places, but probably the worst-affected country of all is Britain. Since austerity began in 2010, around 1,00 public toilets have closed, a quarter of the total. Read Owen Hatherley on public toilets.

One of the clearest markers of Britain’s civic downslide in recent decades is the slow cancellation of its once plentiful provision of public toilets. But in Asian countries like Japan and Taiwan, another loo is possible.

Paralleling scenes across Britain, a summer of far-right phase shift climaxed in Newcastle this weekend, as ‘stop the boats’ marchers faced off against campaigners determined to defend the North East’s anti-racist heritage.

We must peel away those drawn in by lies from the hardened fascists. This is a task for us, within our communities. Read Sean Waters on the far-right.

As far-right populism approaches a terrifying crossover moment, the Left needs to think urgently about how to respond. Replacing anti-fascist strategies of the past with subtler forms of community engagement should be the first step.

Druid’s play is a vivid, powerful reminder of how seriously the company takes theatre and art as living forms — in light of the conflicts we experience today, and those that stain our common, global humanity. Read Kieran Curran on 'the double bill'.

In the West of Ireland, a theatre company with roots in the radical 1970s renewed its mission this summer with a double bill of Synge and Shakespeare. How does its narrative speak to our precarious political and cultural moment?

The Prime Minister often evokes the idea that the government is for ‘working people’. The truth, of course, is that the world of work has deteriorated rapidly for millions, and that the government is failing to repair the situation. Read Jon Trickett on Labour.

The inglorious stitch-up of the Labour deputy leadership contest is the work of a government retreating into irrelevance for the sake of factional gain. It’s time for the Left to fight back and recover the party’s soul.

Starmer has repeatedly declared his government is ‘country first, party second’, as if there is some dichotomy in which the party is a threat to the nation. That perhaps is the root of all his leadership problems. Read Chris McLaughlin on Labour. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/brea...

The fallout from Angela Rayner’s resignation last week is increasingly threatening to fatally undermine the Starmer government — as a power-crazed McSweenyite rump battles spiralling chaos, and the party’s foundational bond with organised labour comes under existential threat.

Despite being an unseen entity, offshoring has grown more prosperous than ever and achieves regular success at further eroding any legal restraints to its operations.  Read Anne Colamosca on the ‘Bibby Resolution’.

Following a single vessel’s progress from US prison ship to migrant workers’ barge, a new book highlights global capitalism’s reliance on brutally exploiting workers, degrading national democracy, and operating as a law unto itself.

To undercut the far-right and strengthen the power of workers, we need to urgently deepen the purpose of the Trades Union Congress through real democratic reform.

Keir Starmer pays lip service to the commitment to the welfare state that is expected of Labour while committing to a continuation of the violent restrictions and deprivations of austerity. Read Helen Charman on the 'dadcore' state.

The Starmer years look set to be defined by the dour, authoritarian persona of the Prime Minister himself — a sort of nightmarish latter-day successor to ‘nanny to the nation’ Margaret Thatcher’, Margaret Thatcher. This, we might say, is dadcore.

Without adequate family or state support, without help from aid networks, what happens? The answer is bleak, but so are the fates of the women — sick, disabled, elderly, broke, and on benefits — that populate Airless Spaces. Read Katie Tobin on Shulamith Firestone.

After publishing her seminal text The Dialectic Of Sex, feminist activist Shulamith Firestone largely withdrew from public life. But her recently reissued late 1980s prose fiction contains cries against social marginalisation and abandonment.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the body has become a political weapon that is used to further dominate Palestinian society through policies meticulously designed to destroy the core foundations of community. Read Liam Syed on the death of Awdah Hathaleen.

As violence on the West Bank continues unabated, Israel appears intent on destroying Palestine and its people, erasing their identity, culture, and autonomy — in life as well as in death.

The obstacle to addressing the climate crisis is not a lack of awareness or a lack of popular will. The problem is that our governments are capitalist, and the climate crisis cannot be addressed within capitalism. Read @jasonhickel on climate solutions. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...

Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.

If Britain can be understood as an active participant in the Gaza genocide, then so too should its media, whose assent makes such crimes possible. Read Tribune editor-at-large Karl Hansen on press censorship.

So please to have this article in this superb issue of Tribune. @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and I lay out a few arguments from our Radical Abundance book. We explain why the political centre and right have taken such a sharp authoritarian turn, and what we can do about it.

The little-known existence of D-Notices — where major media institutions voluntarily censor themselves in the name of the ‘national interest’ — is central to understanding British journalism’s dirty relationship to state power.

We need to establish new models of ownership that fundamentally embed processes of collective popular decision-making at the core of essential services like water, electricity, and food. Read Keir Milburn on the future of the left.

In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governance.

Zohran Mamdani has given hope to millions of New Yorkers that they will be able to afford to live in the city they call home. Read Glyn Robbins on the housing crisis.

Decades of corporate landlordism have devastated British housing and squeezed its tenants. To fight back, the Left should emulate Zohran Mamdani’s energetic, street-level community housing campaigns in New York.

Labour is not just appeasing Reform. It is laying out the red carpet, passing dangerous legislation that will be harnessed by those seeking to destroy our rights. Read @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on the need for an alternative.

As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.

great article in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this morning about the dichotomy between the big two wrestling promotions #wrestlesky 🤼

if you want something feel-good!

"The late Hulk Hogan was a union-busting racist." Maybe the nicest thing I've seen written about Hulk since he died.

“But what made it so emotionally resonant is that Page reacted to all the typically preposterous things that happened to him as if they were indeed real. As such, he became perhaps the most relatable, most human character in wrestling.” Exceptionally written article. Worth the read.

it's a niche form of entertainment but it does feel like a boom period for it, and this partly captures why lapsed fans like myself feel like there's a show worth watching again 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♀️

"They wouldn’t be doing this if there weren’t a market for it. The fact that there is a market for it, however, is demonstrative of the groundswell of support for the values of Page/Woltz." Fantastic piece.

The reaction of fans to Hangman Page overcoming trauma and alienation via solidarity shows that what hundreds of thousands of fans and people worldwide crave is not just success, but connection and togetherness. Read Tom Williams on the politics of wrestling.

Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.