by Sabrina Huck | Dec 6, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
Since Brexit and Trump, international commentators have – much to the surprise of many in Germany – hailed Angela Merkel as the last progressive force to defend liberal values across the western world. While some might perceive her as a grand stateswoman, journalists...
by Joyce Gould | Dec 6, 2016 | Progressive reviews
There has, until recently, been a dearth of books about Labour’s women parliamentarians. Alice in Westminster, a new book by Labour member of parliament Rachel Reeves, redresses that imbalance and shines a new light on the life story and achievements of her...
by Philip Glanville | Dec 6, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
It is the top 20 per cent of kids that make Hackney’s schools truly comprehensive – and successful Over the summer, Hackney Labour party started our own campaign against grammar schools and other Tory attacks on schools, which we continued into the ‘Education, Not...
by Elaine C Kamarck | Dec 5, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
What does a Trump victory mean for progressive politics in the US, asks Elaine C Kamarck The extraordinary 2016 presidential campaign was one of the ugliest and most divisive in recent US history. But it is not the only reason this election will be remembered for a...
by Peter Kellner | Dec 5, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
The voters pollsters missed – traditionally Labour and Democrat – are now supporters of populist parties, leaders and causes, finds Peter Kellner In the early evening of 8 November, just as the first American states were closing their polling stations, a Fox News...
by Polly Billington | Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Climate change politics have changed a lot since Ed Miliband emerged bleary-eyed into a freezing cold Copenhagen dawn insisting the negotiations were not in tatters and achieving progress was still possible. He was half right. Climate change campaigners learned from...
by Editorial | Dec 5, 2016 | Editorial, Section: Progress Magazine
Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory are consistently understood as a working-class uprising against the establishment and blunt messages from the voters that they want more action on immigration. Like it or not, both were votes for change. While 2.8 million ‘non-voters’...
by Sarah Ditum | Dec 2, 2016 | Section: Web exclusive
Emily Brothers, former Labour parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam, writes that Labour needs ‘trans respect not transphobia’. It is a shame that she makes this call using language that is, at best, dismissive of the feminist movement and at worst...
by Stephen Bush | Dec 2, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine
The rise of Brexit and Trump means Labour must deal with ‘very real concerns’, writes Stephen Bush While it is overly simplistic to see the triumph of Donald Trump as only the American progressives’ film adaptation of the European left’s novel, it bore some of the...
by The Insider | Dec 2, 2016 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
November’s events will be studied by politicos for a very long time to come. The experts laughed off his prospects but they are not laughing now. The fake-tanned long shot pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in recent times, after a campaign full of twists and...
