by Robert Philpot | Dec 1, 2017 | The Last Word
The Momentum loyalty test is in the very best tradition of democratic centralism – not democratic socialism, Robert Philpot has the last word There was something very fitting about the fact that, a year to the day after Momentum publicly mourned the death of former...
by The Progressive | Dec 1, 2017 | The Progressive
Labour is backtracking on the coalition that meant 2017’s result was an unexpected improvement on 2015, not convincing former Tory voters to switch sides next time In the long annuls of British political history, has the nation ever been led by such damaged goods?...
by The Insider | Dec 1, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
Are Momentum’s candidate contracts as short-lived as those in the Labour leader’s office? Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village When Jeremy Corbyn called the prevalence of insecure work in the British economy a ‘crisis’ during his budget...
by Adrian McMenamin | Nov 30, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Council tenants cannot ‘wait for Corbyn’ before their Labour council starts improving their housing stock, argues Haringey resident Adrian McMenamin If the Jeremy Corbyn revolution has a ground zero, then I live there. I am not in Islington North: that...
by Adam Barnett | Nov 29, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
What US thinking on populism can teach us about how we tell true egalitarians from false friends and frauds, writes Adam Barnett It is a sign of our shallow times that despite the ubiquity of the word ‘populism’ over the last two years, so little attention has been...
by Sheila Gilmore | Nov 29, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
With no forthcoming elections and a new leader, Scottish Labour has the opportunity to get back on track, writes Sheila Gilmore One thing I hope we can all agree on is that we don’t want another leadership election in Scotland anytime soon. Their regularity has...
by Rosie Corrigan | Nov 28, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Last week’s budget’s stamp duty and railcard tinkering will not deal with generational inequality and the north-south divide, argues Rosie Corrigan ‘One of the things I love most about this country is its sense of opportunity. I have always felt it,...
by Conor Pope | Nov 27, 2017 | Progressive reviews, Section: Progress Magazine
The biggest driver of Emmanuel Macron appears to be his own ambition – but that is not his shortcoming, writes Conor Pope What is centrism? Is it a coherent political ideology, simply a rejection of ones that already exist, or just a dismissive attack by the radical...
by Robert Philpot | Nov 24, 2017 | The Last Word
The Boris Johnson angle to the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case may have piqued domestic interest, but we should not believe he is the only villain here, writes Robert Philpot Yesterday, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spent her 600th day imprisoned in Iran on trumped up...
by Alison McGovern MP | Nov 23, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Alison McGovern lays out five tests the budget should have met November’s budget was an attempt for politics to trump economics and did little for our country, or its people. If you work in the public sector and were expecting a pay rise, sorry. If improved childcare...
