by Neil Bibby | Dec 9, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
Only Heathrow expansion can provide for Scottish business Back in October we learned that after years of prevarication, the government would back a third runway at Heathrow. It was, the secretary of state for transport Chris Grayling said, ‘a momentous decision’....
by Grace Skelton | Dec 9, 2016 | Grace Skelton
‘Any society in which the safeguarding of rights is not assured and the separation of powers is not observed, has no constitution’, so said Montesquieu, the influential French political philosopher in The Spirit of the Laws 1748, whose theory of the...
by Sarah Champion MP | Dec 9, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
In a post-Brexit Britain, international conventions and the obligations they create become more important than ever before. They provide for us an important external perspective and the necessary scrutiny to shine a light on the unintended or ill-thought-through...
by Sarah Hayward | Dec 8, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
We are dealing with a housing crisis. Tory housing policy has exacerbated that and we’ve seen the market spiral out of control, private renters facing continued hikes and a chronic shortage of social housing for those who need support to access housing. The rise of...
by Cameron Tait | Dec 8, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
A plan is needed to ensure access to work that lets all workers thrive Theresa May’s attempt to steal the title of the ‘party of workers’ from Labour has pushed the issue of work once more into the political battleground. Meanwhile, industrial change, technological...
by Spencer Livermore | Dec 8, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
If Labour becomes an anti-immigration party it will be the far-right that benefits, not us The autumn statement revealed the enormous damage leaving the European Union will do to the British economy. Growth and productivity will be lower, while borrowing and inflation...
by Joe Jervis | Dec 8, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
It is time for Labour to lead the debate on the digitalised economy Labour, and the liberal left more widely, have been dealt a series of hammer blows. Crushing election defeats in 2010 and 2015 illustrated a lack of trust in centre-left economics. The Brexit vote and...
by Duncan Hothersall | Dec 7, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
Despite Scottish Labour being in a seriously tough place in the polls it has been heartening for many members to see our campaigning spirit undimmed in recent months, and after a strong campaign pointing out Scottish National party failures on the National Health...
by Philipp Novak | Dec 7, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
After Brexit and Trump, Austrian voters seem to have stopped the latest wave of right-wing populist in this week’s presidential elections. With the support of large parts of the governing parties, the Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen defeated the nationalist...
by Richard Angell | Dec 7, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
Time to convince fellow members of Labour’s founding purpose The Labour party was founded as the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 by Keir Hardie and others to secure parliamentary representation of labour, because he and the founding trade unions had concluded...
