Sitting in the audience at the Progress manifesto last weekend was like seeing a potted history of Labour in...
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A smaller House of Commons under the Conservatives?
Hobbesian Britain?
With only months to go till the next election, all the major parties have been setting out their vision and ideas for...
Transparent transactions
Rich countries in Copenhagen this week are trying to reduce aid to the developing world. Having made a series of...
Recovering Rwanda
It is only 15 years since Rwanda was torn apart in a vicious civil war in which over 800,000 people were killed. Since...
Current crisis
Last weekend tens of thousands of progressives took to the streets in London, Glasgow and Belfast and this weekend the...
Protecting children
An estimated 500,000 children in Haiti are restaveks, or child domestic workers. The term restavek comes from the...
Sinking or swimming
After 12 years of Labour governance, Britain remains a largely pleasant and prosperous place to live – but not...
Internocracy
The announcement of bursaries to help 10,000 undergraduates into internship placements was a welcome move made by...
One voice
As the old adage goes: ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.’Nowhere is this...
Seven ways to lose a voter
The Party of European Socialists is struggling. Across Europe the news has been bleak. Less than 10 years ago...
Backbench honeymoon
Unity was supposed to be one of New Labour’s defining characteristics. Back in the 1990s, it helped...