by Rob Marchant | Dec 14, 2016 | Progressive reviews, Section: Web exclusive
Can is an educated, middle-class professional, living in a European country, who has, by any reasonable interpretation of the word, had a successful career. He is a nice guy, an intelligent and articulate man with a loving family, great friends and unusually...
by Peter Mandelson | Dec 14, 2016 | BrexitWatch, Section: Progress Magazine
There are still trade options open for Britain This year’s referendum was the most divisive, polarising event in Britain’s postwar history – which is why you would have thought the government would wish to respect the result delivered by one half of the country but...
by Ian McKenzie | Dec 13, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
It turns out they were wrong, those people who told us that the only outcome to the Syrian genocide was a political solution. It turns out that there were two military solutions after all. One was to arm the secular moderate opposition to the fascist Assad, who were...
by Ed Husain | Dec 13, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
Counter Extremism, Defeating ISIS, and Winning the Battle of Ideas Full disclosure: I met Liam Byrne to discuss his ideas for his new book Black Flag Down: Counter Extremism, Defeating ISIS, and Winning the Battle of Ideas. He has an excellent grasp of detail. I have...
by Luciana Berger MP | Dec 13, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
A Labour government must put food banks out of business Christmas is a time of increased financial pressures for most families. On 25 December this year, thousands of people will sit down to a meal supplied by strangers, distributed as emergency food aid. In newly...
by Christabel Cooper | Dec 12, 2016 | Christabel Cooper
If there is any philosophy underpinning Donald Trump’s assorted ramblings, it is the idea imported from his ultra-capitalist approach to business, that life is a zero-sum game; that you can only prosper if someone else is diminished. One of the messages that seems to...
by Conor Pope | Dec 12, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
2017 might not be the recovery progressives were hoping for but it could show that a corner has been turned Not only was 2016 was one of the lowest troughs for the centre-left both here and abroad, there was plenty to suggest a nadir has not yet been reached. Is 2017...
by Christabel Edwards | Dec 12, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
The dust has settled on the Sleaford and North Hykeham byelection with the depressing outcome that a party, comfortably second at the last general election, is now fourth, with a huge mountain to climb. So many aspects of the campaign were positive. It was great to...
by The Progressive | Dec 12, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progressive
The lows of 2016 will continue if the centre-left does not recognise that history can be shaped In the long sweep of history, there are certain years which punctuate time’s journey, like speed bumps. When Sir Edward Grey looked out of his window at the Foreign Office...
by Richard Angell | Dec 9, 2016 | The Last Word
The clash between the Trotskyists (Laura Murray’s term) and the ‘alt-Stalinist’ (the Trotskyists’ term) within Jeremy Corbyn’s outrider group Momentum has come to an ugly head this week. Murray, in founder Jon Lansman’s camp, has...
