Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Five reasons grammar schools are a terrible idea —Theresa May’s decision to announce the expansion of English grammar schools as a radical approach to improving social mobility has been roundly criticised, not least by former Conservative education secretaries and...

When she was elected chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge did not expect her work to be especially exciting. And when I began her book about that work, I was not expecting a thrill a minute either. Thankfully, we were both pleasantly surprised. As...

Public opinion has not shifted back to ‘Remain’ ‘When I woke up the next morning and realised we’d gone Brexit, I felt like England had won the World Cup!’ enthused Doug, a 42-year-old scaffolder from Harlow in one of BritainThinks’ focus groups this September. Other...

Montreal in its early fall seems an almost impossibly perfect place to bring progressives from Europe and Australasia together with Canadian and American counterparts. Quebec’s largest city is the very embodiment of different traditions living side by side. For the...