The Progressive Articles

Labour must learn again how to win over those who voted Tory If you seek a culprit for Labour’s defeat in 2015, look no further than David Marquand, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Marquand did not mean to cause Labour’s defeat. I suspect he regrets it, and...

How to survive the short campaign In John Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps, published exactly 100 years ago, the number 39 assumes great mystery. In the book, it is revealed to be the number of steps in a Kent coastal town leading to a shipload of dastardly German spies. In...

Labour’s first primary must welcome in the capital’s million-strong Labour voters Political scientists have been warning us for over a decade that political parties are in their death-throes. They may well be right. But no one has come up with a convincing alternative...

The Green party plays no part in Labour’s progressive politics No sensible observer of British politics in this election year is making a firm prediction about who will form the next government. There are at least half a dozen possible outcomes, before factoring in...