The state is in danger of failing in its obligation to protect those it is required to incarcerate. Let us be blunt. Prison safety is terrible. Those are not my …
Yanis Varoufakis suggests what the role of the left should be in the inevitable clash with the EU establishment. Exasperated by the European Union’s mixture of authoritarianism and economic failure, …
Leaving the EU creates an opening for change in Britain, but who will rise to the challenge and how? If you are young and British you have had your …
The Revenue is a government department in crisis. In 2005 HMRC employed directly 105,000 members of staff; it currently stands at approximately 58,000, almost a 50% reduction. Plans brought forward …
History has shown us that perhaps the most illegitimate defence is that “the other lot has done worse”. Unfortunately for the Labour movement, that argument has been deployed by some …
Hilda Monte’s luck ran out on the frontier between Nazi Germany and neutral Liechtenstein at dawn on April 17, 1945, just two weeks before the end of the war in …
If it is worth a Chilcot to find out what Tony Blair said to George W. Bush, behind closed doors in Texas in 2002, how much more valuable would be …
John F Kennedy’s time in office was cut tragically short, but he was one of the greatest American presidents, argues Jim McGovern
What would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed? asks Simon Burns
Paul Routledge has just returned from a country on the rise but where bribery is a fixture
Peter Willoughby detects a distinct lack of optimism in some Conservative heartlands
Collusion and cover-up must be replaced by truth and reconciliation, writes Paul Donovan
Austin Mitchell and Prem Sikka outline just how much a drain on the public purse the private sector actually is
Emma Lewell-Buck says increasing numbers of people are not in a ‘dilemma’ but desperate
Why have so many bought into the coalition’s flawed narrative? asks Paul Donovan
Gary Kent reports on the latest gathering of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly
The coalition’s examination proposals are vicious, writes Trevor Fisher
Prem Sikka outlines how global brand names avoid paying taxes on an industrial scale – and what could be done about it
The planned Hi Speed 2 rail line has divided the coalition as estimated costs have spiralled from £34 billion to more than £59 billion. Tribune has invited two Conservative MPs …
Have we learned nothing over the past 100 years? asks Hugh Gault
Early results in Argentina’s key mid-term elections indicate the opposition Renewal Front has won by a wide margin in the province of Buenos Aires.
Following the storm sparked by Tory slurs on the Labour leader’s father, we republish a 1965 article by Ralph Miliband which is particularly pertinent for someone aiming to become Prime …
There are occasions when the British confuse self-image with the facts, writes Colin Brown
