Laissez-Faire Listening
The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?
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Solidarity of the Ruling Class
A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that landowners are given a hard time and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.
Things Can Only Get Greyer
Yesterday’s Spending Review is another example of how the government is trying to muddle on through, leaving core services like social care underfunded, the wealth of the rich undertaxed, and millions of us exposed to worsening instability and insecurity.
Did a Forgotten Sci-fi Novel Predict Trump 2.0?
The campaign to annex Greenland has provided one of the weirder subplots of Trump’s second presidential term. Was this harebrained colonialist episode anticipated in a now forgotten novel by two modernist masters?
On National Centrism
‘Starmerism’ has been defined by absence rather than a firm plan for government. Now the Labour leadership is tending towards passive acceptance of the nationalist spirit of the age.
Partisans of the World
For many people who risked their lives to defeat Nazism, aiding the post-war movements against a dying but vicious colonialism was the next step in the fight to realise their anti-fascist ideals.
The War Economy
One of the few policy innovations of the current Labour government is a turn towards rearmament under a new ‘military Keynesianism’. This means more profits for weapons manufacturers — and more authority for capitalist states.
Starmerism Down Under
Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party is competing with Starmer’s for blandness and capitulation — and in doing so, proving the importance of rebuilding international working-class power.
Can the Public Recapture the Land?
Landowners often reap the benefit of infrastructure projects without lifting a finger. But through an increasingly used process called ‘land value capture’, private profit can be channeled back into public hands.
Delivering the Homes Workers Need
In order to solve the housing crisis inherited from the Tories, Labour needs to look beyond the ‘bonfire of red tape’ narrative and crack down on developer profiteering.
A New Era for Tribune
Under new leadership, Tribune will continue its print publication, which has been in circulation since 1937, while pursuing an ambitious expansion of its editorial mission.
Too Lammy, Too Late
As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and infuriating.