Young progressives Articles

In May this year I was elected with over 50 per cent of the vote to represent the people of Irwell, Rossendale at the age of 19 – the youngest councillor to ever be elected in Rossendale. Now, as member champion for younger people, my job is to be an ambassador for...

Which Labour policy would, according to Michael Gove’s Hyperbole Machine, leave ‘millions of state school pupils unemployable’? That would be the Technical Baccalaureate policy which Gove has this week picked up, having realised that he should probably contribute to...

Ten years ago this month, The Business Academy Bexley opened its doors. The first academy in England, it replaced Thamesmead Community College, an institution which reflected the inherent failures of an education system held back by tired dogma. In Thamesmead’s final...

My primary school, halfway through my time there, seemed to adopt a rather pithy motto. I think it was in Latin, but having been brought up before the great liberator Michael Gove launched his attack on the oppressive, anti-Latin language programmes in schools, I...