Political Weekend 2014 Articles

Living in a safe seat has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the pressure of campaigning is never really felt in the same way. Freed from the immediate threat of losing strongholds such as Stoke-on-Trent, we ought to be able to build a real...

Community organising is one of the pillars of progressive politics. If there is one thing that has been repeatedly shown throughout history it is that change comes only to those who are willing to act to achieve their goals. It is strange to hear politicians admit the...

Writing this summary piece on the Progress Political Weekend plenary featuring Jon Cruddas, and chaired by the engaging Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist, could not be more appropriate in the week that George Osborne laid down his financial gauntlet ahead of the next...

Upon gaining power in 2015, a Labour government would give that power away. This is part of our plan for a people-powered political system and was a recurring theme at this year’s Progress Political Weekend. Think Labour’s version of the ‘big society’, but with...