Section: Progress Magazine Articles

We are the true guardians of the spirit of 1945 One of the most thought-provoking questions on the state of the Labour party after the general election defeat came from my six-year-old daughter. That is not explicitly a comment on the rigour of the Labour leadership...

Every time the Labour party loses it does worse at the following election, a tradition sadly continued by Scottish Labour in both Holyrood and Westminster. We need to turn the fortunes of the party around so that the prospect of a decade out of power does not become...

Labour must learn again how to win over those who voted Tory If you seek a culprit for Labour’s defeat in 2015, look no further than David Marquand, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Marquand did not mean to cause Labour’s defeat. I suspect he regrets it, and...

Is Vermont’s socialist senator pulling Hillary Clinton to the left, asks Robert Philpot At 4.47pm on Wednesday 27 August 2008, Hillary Clinton addressed the Democratic party faithful gathered in Denver. ‘I move,’ she declared, ‘that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be...