Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Attacking Topshop helps no one Politics remains a world dominated by white men and I am a BAME woman. Yet possibly the very smallest minority within the Labour party that I belong to is that of members who work in the private sector. This was a point I put to Jeremy...

We must not let history repeat itself In May 1979 the defeated prime minister, James Callaghan, said to me that he felt sorry for new members of parliament like myself as we would be in opposition for 10 years. He was wrong. It was 18 years. Callaghan thought the...

Jackie Bailie and Tom Harris consider whether Scottish Labour was right to promise to raise income tax [column-group][column]Tom Harris Promising higher taxes was a flawed strategy for Scottish Labour in 2016. And yet it was also entirely sensible and logical,...

When Michael Young coined the word ‘meritocracy’ in 1958, it was to describe a dystopian society stratified, not by class, but by intelligence tests and academic attainment. It was written as satire and meant as a warning. It was a dig at the contemporary education...