Month: February 2002 Articles

New Labour lives on

Peter Mandelson still believes in New Labour. He explains why

John Major described them as the Tories’ ‘Broadmoor Wing’. Now they’re running the party, reports Johann Hari

Progress prints your views on current party and policy issues

Labour must turn black and ethnic minority voters into members, argues Jules Mason

Britain simply cannot afford the devastation that is sweeping its manufacturing base. The seriousness of this issue...

The Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report in November marked a dramatic shift in the government’s rhetoric about...

Housing-led regeneration is a big issue in British politics, but to read the press or watch the television, you...

Since the general election there has been much justified concern about low voter turnout with many theories being...

‘For all its flaws, the US, where a black child of poverty such as Colin Powell, could rise to be Secretary of...

It is hardly headline news that the Tory Party has been captured by the hard right. Labour Party members have long...

New Labour has been criticised since its birth because it was a new political project that sought to change the...

In the Labour Party we have a long and distinguished history of campaigning and pulling together in whatever ways...

Tony Blair’s idea of finding a Third Way in politics has not enjoyed a good press in the UK. Guardian journalist Polly...

Despite almost universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, global poverty reduction...

Education is one of the most important weapons in our battle against child poverty and our extra investment and school...

Poverty is bad for your health. Men and women living in poorer areas of the country die younger than those in more...