Just over two years ago in May 2009 our parliament was in a deep crisis of its own making. But it seems that the new...
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Young progressives Articles
Social capital: Labour’s ‘big society’?
Social capital is varied: it is politics, the unions, philanthropy, youth clubs, volunteering, religious organisations...
Finding the cooperative solution to all our challenges
We should be looking to the Cooperative party's key principles of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality,...
Conviction politics
“What would Jesus do?” The BNP, in a desperately brazen bit of publicity, are suggesting if he could...
Stop homophobic hatred: don’t let the Tories wreck Clause 58
The third reading of the Justice and Coroners Bill is set for the Commons on Monday. Clause 58 will re-instate the...
A great ambition
For possibly the first time ever, this year I watched all of the TV coverage of Comic Relief.I was pleasantly...
Electoral reform would act as a shot of adrenaline into our political system
I’m about to admit something that is likely to make you hate me. It’s something that puts me into a very...
We need a new approach to fighting the BNP
I am a democrat. A realisation of being a democrat is accepting that other people will not always agree with you and...
International development: the need for a new dividing line
At a recent event on international development, hosted by the Global Campaign for Education, there was seemingly...
Rich and filthy rich
When Peter Mandelson declared himself to be "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" it might have sounded...
Privacy matters
A few days ago I joined the group “cc all your emails to Jacqui Smith day” on Facebook. I’m not...
A hung parliament at the next election is not impossible, and there could be many outcomes
Electoral politics in the UK is currently volatile and will remain so while the global credit crisis continues. We...