Tribune Magazine

2 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | James Meadway

Yesterday’s long-awaited Spending Review matched up to Labour’s many leaks and previews over the last few weeks. There were significant increases in health and military spending and some much needed money for housing and big infrastructure projects. But these are matched to further cuts in critical departments like agriculture and the environment, and the money for local government in particular does not restore losses since 2010 at a time of increasing pressures on their funding.

1 month ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Grace Blakeley

For more than a decade, economists have been scratching their heads over the productivity puzzle afflicting western economies. The issue has been particularly severe in the UK, where productivity stagnated for over a decade following the financial crisis. Now, we have new data showing that productivity levels have fallen to below pre-COVID levels. Productivity is the amount of output produced per hour worked.

1 month ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Pablo Castaño

After the dwindling of the Catalan independence movement, a new force has emerged in the region: Aliança Catalana, a far-right party mixing Catalan nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric. Led by Ripoll town councillor Sílvia Orriols, the party is gaining traction and reshaping the political conversation in Spain. The rise of this tendency is yet another example of how the European far right can adapt to local contexts while sticking to its priority: anti-immigration and Islamophobia.

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’.

1 month ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Grace Blakeley

The state is back, and it’s building guns. With the Trump administration railing against European ‘freeloading’ on US military spending, European politicians have announced plans to spend billions on rearmament. The US economy has taken a beating as the tech bubble has burst and Trump’s tariffs have raised the spectre of slower growth and higher […] The state is back, and it’s building guns.