Month: February 2002 Articles

Tax talk

Is an earmarked health tax the way to save the NHS, asks Michael Jacobs

Progress prints your views on current party and policy issues

Compulsory voting is the only sure way to raise turnout, argues Gareth Thomas

Housing policy needs to rise up the political
agenda, argues David Wright

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...

What’s the extent of child poverty in Britain today? There are a number of ways in which you can measure poverty:...

Watching the political machinations of Northern Ireland may well be by turns fascinating, disturbing and frustrating....

For members of the Welsh Assembly government, the relative freedom from crisis which we have been able to enjoy over...

While preparing for this month’s Labour Party Scottish conference, I realised that the Scottish Parliament marks...

The euro has not exactly been underexposed in the British political debate since its launch three years ago. Even if...

For most of David Lammy’s constituents, Tottenham may only be twenty minutes from Westminster by tube, but, in most...

Eday was an historic moment. The launch of euro notes and coins to 300 million of the EU’s citizens in the...

Defining the Third Way is like trying to nail jelly to the wall. But its core appears to be a mix of platitudes (the...

MPs could: Launch or sign up as sponsors of a local end child poverty campaign; Approach local media to back the...