by Ellie Groves | Sep 5, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
People leaving prison with nowhere to go are planning to commit crimes just so they can get a roof over their heads again. How do we break out of this cycle, asks Ellie Groves We have to ask what prison is for before we can understand how to be ‘tough on crime’. Why...
by Emma Bean | Sep 5, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Women in politics and the public eye are facing intolerable abuse – and it can only serve to put others off, reports Emma Bean The price to pay for being in the public sphere seems to be a barrage of attacks from all sides. Intimidation and tweets threatening attacks...
by Anna Lynch | Sep 4, 2017 | #TUC17, Section: Progress Magazine
One per cent pay restraint is harming nurses, their families and the whole NHS, write Anna Lynch and Danielle Tiplady One of us trained to be a nurse under a Labour government and, as a student nurse, the pay cap for nurses was not just scrapped by Labour, it was...
by Simon Vaut | Sep 4, 2017 | Letter from ..., Section: Progress Magazine
SPD candidate Martin Schulz made two disastrous errors when launching his candidacy, finds Simon Vaut Martin Schulz achieved something the German Social Democrats have not seen in a long time: a unified party. The delegates voted unanimously at the SPD party...
by Richard Angell | Sep 1, 2017 | The Last Word
Making Labour’s single market shift permanent, punishing parents and farewell to Kezia Dugdale – Progress director Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word As an interim – before formally adopting the right policy to keep Britain in the single market...
by The Progressive | Sep 1, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progressive
The ‘Lexit’ campaign might have come to nothing but Corbyn and McDonnell believe leaving the EU could precipitate a socialist government Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. He has wanted the United Kingdom to be outside the European Union, and its forerunners, since the...
by Rosie Duffield MP | Sep 1, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Students are a vital part of the communities we represent. Government has a duty to remove the barriers they face when registering to vote, argues Rosie Duffield Like many other university cities, the Labour party’s remarkable 2017 success in Canterbury has been...
by Ashley Dalton | Aug 31, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The Jo Cox Women in Leadership course is helping women in the Labour party to combat misogyny and intimidation – and to support one another, writes Ashley Dalton When Jo Cox was elected to parliament in 2015 she was one of 99 Labour women members of parliament and...
by The Insider | Aug 31, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village The foolproof guide to spotting a Bennite power grab is when it is dressed up as ‘giving the members a bigger voice’. Such a move is behind the news that Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are currently being denied...
by Sheila Gilmore | Aug 31, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Kezia Dugdale gave Scottish Labour a renewed confidence – and dragged it back to contention – and we owe it to her to build upon that legacy, writes Sheila Gilmore As a party we owe a great deal to Kezia Dugdale’s willingness to ‘step up to the...
