by Conor Pope | Jul 26, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The Liberal Democrats’ irrelevance has afforded the Labour leadership the freedom to take left-liberal voters for granted on Brexit, argues Progress deputy editor Conor Pope It is easy to look at Labour’s hardline stance on leaving the single market over the...
by Tom Levitt | Jul 25, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Far from being overpaid, public sector employees are showing their commitment to their cause, voluntarily, to a level which borders on exploitation, writes Tom Levitt When Sally Plummer stayed on after the end of her shift to aid a patient suffering a cardiac arrest...
by Christabel Edwards | Jul 25, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Scrapping the electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North highlights the government’s lack of ambition on infrastructure, argues Christabel Edwards Last week the government announced the scrapping of most of its ongoing railway...
by Sheila Gilmore | Jul 24, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Britain needs flexible retirement ages that reflect the complex and differing needs of the world of work in the 21st century, argues Progress strategy board member Sheila Gilmore In 2011, I was privileged to serve on a pensions bill committee with the late Malcolm...
by Renie Anjeh | Jul 24, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Whoever the next Tory leader is, they will not share Theresa May’s deficiencies. Renie Anjeh assesses the runners and riders A few months ago, Theresa May was queen of all she surveyed. She was high on hubris, drunk with power and worshipped by sycophantic...
by Roger Liddle | Jul 21, 2017 | Progressive reviews, Section: Progress Magazine
Jason Farrell and Paul Goldsmith take a healthy long-lens view of the referendum, writes Roger Liddle ‘A device of dictators and demagogues.’ Clement Attlee’s curt dismissal of the referendum as a legitimate constitutional device had rather fallen out of fashion in...
by The Insider | Jul 21, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
Another dispatch from the Westminster village The snap election resulted in some results that have caused your insider to seriously doubt their fact-checking skills. Stella Creasy holds 80 per cent of the vote, a percentage not reached in the 132 years that there has...
by Matthew Laza | Jul 20, 2017 | Progressive reviews, Section: Progress Magazine
Politicians learning the wrong lessons from tight message discipline have created a vacuum in which fake news is able to flourish, writes Matthew Laza I suspect everyone does what I did when first picking up Newsnight anchor Evan Davis’ entertaining and timely new...
by The Progressive | Jul 20, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Being in the minority does not mean you are wrong, but that your time may come again If there is one lesson from the extraordinary rise of Jeremy Corbyn, it is not that we progressives should bend before his altar in the name of unity; it is the exact opposite....
by Ann Coffey MP | Jul 19, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Social media giants and dating apps must do more to help protect their users from being catfished by aggressive and harmful predators, warns Ann Coffey MP The internet has bought about massive positive changes but it has also brought complex problems of how to protect...
