Progressive reviews Articles

Politicians learning the wrong lessons from tight message discipline have created a vacuum in which fake news is able to flourish, writes Matthew Laza I suspect everyone does what I did when first picking up Newsnight anchor Evan Davis’ entertaining and timely new...

Matthew Doyle is (mostly) impressed by Steve Waters' compelling drama Politics and theatre have long fed off one another and the attempt to ‘break the mould’ of Britain’s two dominant parties has been turned into a rewarding tale at the Donmar Warehouse by Steve...

Steve Waters' new play about the 'gang of four' is a reminder that Labour has looked over the precipice before – and recovered, writes Progress director Richard Angell 'Labour's f*cked', pronounces David Owen at the start of Steve Waters’ new play at the Donmar...

Rosa Prince’s uncritical biography does little to uncover the real prime minister, finds Christabel Cooper ‘The Enigmatic Prime Minister’ is a highly appropriate subtitle for this new biography of Theresa May. Huge contradictions continue to surround her: between the...