by Rachel Finnegan | Mar 22, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The government’s Prevent strategy is causing ‘suspicion in the classroom and confusion in the staffroom’, writes Rachel Finnegan of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights The government’s Prevent strategy places a statutory obligation on teachers and...
by Sheila Gilmore | Mar 22, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Labour’s ‘mass membership’ must be more than a shield for Jeremy Corbyn to hide behind when criticised, writes Progress strategy board member Sheila Gilmore Dissension in the Labour party is often portrayed as ‘members v the parliamentary...
by Chris Carter | Mar 22, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
A high-efficiency, high-wage economy is needed to take on the economic challenges our country faces post-Brexit, writes Chris Carter It is always a challenge getting people interested in inflation figures. The collective eye-glazing of new economic statistics are...
by Richard Angell | Mar 21, 2017 | Progressive reviews
Steve Waters’ new play about the ‘gang of four’ is a reminder that Labour has looked over the precipice before – and recovered, writes Progress director Richard Angell ‘Labour’s f*cked’, pronounces David Owen at the start of Steve...
by Maeve McCormack | Mar 21, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Debate
Will Donald Trump win again in 2020? [column-group][column] If the whispered conversations inside the press office at the Democratic national convention last July had been reported maybe the night of 8 November 2016 would have come as less of a shock. ‘I am really...
by Conor Pope | Mar 20, 2017 | Monday Politics
Labour’s forgotten leader deserves better than to be airbrushed from the annals of the party’s history, argues Progress deputy editor Conor Pope New YouGov research published this weekend asked Labour members to choose their top three party leaders of all...
by Florian Ranft | Mar 20, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The energetic start that Martin Schulz has made to his campaign for the chancellorship is a marked contrast to Angela Merkel’s managerial style, argues Florian Ranft It has been a near sensation for social democrats to follow Germany’s public opinion polls...
by Luciana Berger MP | Mar 20, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Rates of suicide and self-harm in our prisons shame us all, writes Luciana Berger MP Official data published by the ministry of justice on 26 January this year showed that 119 prisoners died by suicide during 2016. This is the highest number in a calendar year since...
by Richard Angell | Mar 17, 2017 | The Last Word
May’s weakness exposed, leadership in local government and an impressive start for Open Labour – Progress director Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word The Tories in 2015 told Britain not to vote Labour because Ed Miliband would be a disaster for the...
by Jackie Baillie MSP | Mar 17, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
When Scotland’s education system is failing and the NHS is on its knees, another independence referendum should be the last of the SNP’s concerns, argues Jackie Baillie MSP On 18 September 2014, 85 per cent of Scots went to the ballot box in the...
