Francesca Newton
Online Editor at Tribune Magazine
Writing and editing @tribunemagazine, @_vashtimedia etc. Currently in Naarm/Melbourne.
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1 month ago |
tribunemag.co.uk | Francesca Newton
In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […] In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’.
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1 month ago |
vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton
The Pickle — 4 min read Yesterday was Victory in Europe (VE) Day. 8 May 2025 marks 80 years since Germany’s surrender at the end of World War II, and 80 years since the scale of industrial murder it had carried out in the name of racial purity became known to the rest of the world. Celebrations and ceremonies took place across Britain and Europe, and in Israel too. Politicians tweeted speeches set to slick videos and stirring music.
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2 months ago |
vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton
This Tuesday, 15 April, was 36 years since the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 Liverpool fans were killed – that day and afterwards – by the gross negligence of the South Yorkshire police. In the following hours and days, the police lied to push blame onto the victims and other crowd members. Their lies were published by The Sununder the headline “THE TRUTH”.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
tribunemag.co.uk | Francesca Newton
In a July day in 1795, a crowd of women approached a bread cart on a road outside Delph, near Manchester. The cart was stopped and the loaves in it taken. Its driver, Richard Broome, probably thought he was being robbed, but then the bread was sold to onlookers for two pence a pound and the takings placed back into his hands.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton |Evan Robins |Annabel Cohen
The Pickle — 4 min read Earlier this week, Israel’s police arrested Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna – the owner and his nephew, respectively, of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem – and raided two of their shops. (Mahmoud is the co-editor of Daybreak in Gaza, from which Vashti published an excerpt last October). The police confiscated dozens of the shop’s Arabic and English books, looking for anything with the word Palestine or the Palestinian flag.
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RT @tribunemagazine: Tribune is pleased to announce that socialist writer and academic Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) will be joining as its new…
My piece on the 1795 price-fixing riots is now free to read online, featuring this apparently evergreen letter from the Minister of Colne to the newly-formed Home Office in 1800: https://t.co/7AxVubxUbt
In 1795, English women facing starvation organised to seize food supplies and distribute them for an honest price — making the case for a system that placed community need above individual profit. https://t.co/wP0yABMaqq
