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Mark Seddon is a man I respect and admire but his assertion in last week’s Guardian that the selection of Tristram Hunt as Labour’s candidate for Stoke Central has gifted …

So Labour’s collective campaign genius has launched a poster campaign depicting David Cameron as Gene Hunt, the character from Ashes to Ashes, saying Don’t Take Britain Back to the Eighties. …

Pope Benedict XVI might have a less than happy Easter if his conscience is bothering him. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell  thinks it should be. He  said: “In 2001, the …

Response from Angie Bray, Conservative candidate for Ealing Central and Acton: “Sorry to disappoint you, but John Street’s diary item about our leaflet and the postage is wildly inaccurate. We …

Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev has entered into negotiations to buy Tribune

What is wrong with Boris Johnson? Is he really as mad as he appears? The answer, it seems, is yes. ASLEF general secretary Keith Norman was due to have a …

Denis MacShane is furious that Iain Dale reckons the BNP can be compared  to the Conservative Party. In an interview with BNP leader “Nasty” Nick Griffin in Total Politics, the …

The BBC has bowed to top-level pressure from the Conservative Party – and Lord Ashcroft’s own lawyers – and dropped a lengthy investigation by Panorama into the party’s billionaire backer …

Not in the Unite ballot, of course, which despite the high court’s incredible decision to invalidate the first time round nevertheless represented the overwhelming view of BA cabin staff. No, …

Trevor Fisher (Letters, Tribune March 19) says that a strong Labour candidate should have been in place months ago in Stoke Central. This would indeed have been desirable, but he …

The new Trade Union and Socialist Coalition launched this week. Involved are some of the leading figures of the wildly successful* No2EU campaign which ran in the last Euro elections, …

This week’s Tribune, on sale from Today in selected branches of WHSmith, and available by subscription features the latest from the British Airways strike, and a plea for better industrial …

Tory Westminster hopeful Angie Bray has made a bit of a bloomer in her attempts to secure the three-way marginal seat of Ealing Central and Acton in west London. Former …

The shape of things to come? The right-wing Reform think-tank proposes that thousands of hospital beds in England should be axed. As well as saving money, this would improve care, …

We’ve got some great articles coming up on tribunemagazine.org later this week. Tomorrow, Sally Hunt explains why cutting education in a recession is breathtakingly stupid, and on Thursday, criminologist David …

Tribune is trying to find out which potential Blairite lobbyist would get us the best value for money. Like David Cameron, we believe in crowdsourcing our solutions. That way, we’re …

Over at the Fabian Society’s Next Left blog, Sunder Katwala thinks we should be rude to Lord Ashcroft. He says: [A] peerage remains a significant public honour which reflects an …

Time, gentlemen please. The GMB union is calling time on pub owning companies that charge inflated beer prices and rent to their tied landlords – and then, the union says, …

Any plans Boris Johnson may have of returning to the House of Commons in the future to challenge David Cameron for the Tory leadership are set to be upstaged at …

Angry campaigners are calling on Conservative leader David Cameron to name and shame the Tory MP who killed Andrew Gwynne’s anti-poverty bill. The bill, which would have prevented vulture funds …

This week’s Tribune, on sale from Today in selected branches of WHSmith, and available by subscription features Nyta Mann’s revealing interview with Peter Hain. We have Sally Hunt and Michael …

Can’t David Cameron get anything right? First he climbs into bed with every swivel-eyed, far-right loony in the European Parliament. Then he ties the knot with the Ulster Unionists whose …

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