The Progressive Articles

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...

What bores the Conservative party can stir Labour once more ‘All we hear from [Labour] is poverty, poverty, poverty – la, la, la … It is just boring for Conservative members.’ So once said Liam Fox, outlining the fundamental difference between the two mainstream...