by Stella Creasy MP | Apr 20, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
How do the policy challenges of 1997 compare with the ones we face today, asks Stella Creasy Tony Blair did not send a single email in office. The 1997 manifesto pledged to get rid of outside toilets in schools, such was the condition of our public services. Back then...
by Dom Anderson | Apr 20, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
John McDonnell’s suggestion that those earning £70,000 per year are ‘rich’ is the kind of policy that alienates voters from all economic backgrounds, argues Dom Anderson Back in January I wrote this piece setting out why Labour could not risk turning...
by Stephen Beer | Apr 19, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Delivering a Brexit that is socially justice must be at the heart of Labour’s general election campaign, writes Stephen Beer Facing this election, once again Labour faces the challenge of explaining clearly what it will do to promote a better economy. This...
by Alex Warnakulasuriya | Apr 19, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
No self-respecting progressive should get into bed with a party that propped up David Cameron and George Osborne for five years, writes Alex Warnakulasuriya I joined the Liberal Democrats in October 2016. I joined Tim Farron’s #libdemfightback (ugh) seeking refuge...
by Richard Angell | Apr 18, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Labour members must bust a gut to elect as many Labour members of parliament as possible and stop a hard Brexit, writes Progress director Richard Angell This morning Theresa May broke another promise and plunged the country towards an early election. She will use the...
by Claire McCarthy | Apr 13, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
A ‘robot tax’ would deter businesses from much-needed investment in technology, argues Co-operative party general secretary Claire McCarthy You cannot turn on the radio or open a newspaper now without being confronted by a dystopian story about the future impact ‘the...
by Roger Liddle | Apr 13, 2017 | BrexitWatch, Section: Progress Magazine
Theresa May has limited her hard Brexit options, argues former Tony Blair adviser Roger Liddle The British political class may be obsessed with Brexit, but the continent’s political world is not. Among European social democrats, there is widespread sadness about...
by Waheed Alli | Apr 12, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The international community has a moral responsibility to make clear that the detention, arrest, torture and murder of LGBT people in Chechnya is unacceptable, argues Waheed Alli This week has been a sobering reminder there are still huge global challenges for LGBT...
by Stephen Daisley | Apr 12, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Scotland’s non-nationalists approach a second referendum as a majority without a movement, writes Stephen Daisley It seems like only two and a half years since the last referendum on Scottish independence but the Scottish National party assures us a generation has...
by Allen Simpson | Apr 12, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Britain’s new divide is not about a rejection of liberalism, writes Allen Simpson In the dying days of the Gordon Brown government, Douglas Carswell made an impish appearance at a Fabian conference to tell the left that it had a structural problem. He said our purpose...
