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1 week ago | tribunemag.co.uk | David Broder

The former San Sabba rice mill, in the northeast Italian port city of Trieste, resembles many other relics of past industry. Its five storeys retain the stark red of its more-than-a-century-old brickwork, but it has a ghostly, dilapidated air. No longer a hub of labour, it has, over the decades, been encircled by more modern structures, from corrugated-iron superstores to apartment blocks not quite tall enough to peek into its courtyard.

1 week ago | tribunemag.co.uk | David Broder

The former San Sabba rice mill, in the northeast Italian port city of Trieste, resembles many other relics of past industry. Its five storeys retain the stark red of its more-than-a-century-old brickwork, but it has a ghostly, dilapidated air. No longer a hub of labour, it has, over the decades, been encircled by more modern structures, from corrugated-iron superstores to apartment blocks not quite tall enough to peek into its courtyard.

1 week ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Eli Cugini

On 16 April, the UK Supreme Court judged that ‘sex’, in the Equality Act (2010), refers to ‘biological sex’, which they define as ‘the sex of a person at birth’. This has been welcomed by many journalists and politicians as clarifying, as providing necessary clarity: despite it being a highly specific and vexed judgment, it has been treated as an official state announcement that trans women are men and trans men are women.

3 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Nick Dearden

Last week Trump blinked. He paused reciprocal tariffs above 10% for all countries bar China. Then he exempted electronic goods coming out of China, including smart phones, the price of which was about to go through the roof for American consumers. Trump’s tariff policy has not yet been defeated. And it would be a mistake to read his backtrack as a sign that ‘the administration is coming to its senses.’ Tariffs remain a major part of Trump’s plan to restructure the world economy.

4 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Fergal Kinney

When John Lennon was murdered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in December 1980, it was a tragedy that took place in that strange winter hinterland between the defeat of a Democratic presidential candidate and the inauguration of a Republican one. Ronald Reagan had just won a landslide victory over the beleaguered incumbent Jimmy Carter, whose 1977 inauguration Lennon and Ono had attended.