Deprecated: Function wp_make_content_images_responsive is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp_filter_content_tags() instead. in /home/edadbce1/archive.progressivebritain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114

Tuesday review Articles

Tests of nerve

His detractors think he’s Neil Kinnock. His adherents think he’s Barack Obama. But the politician who Ed Miliband most resembles is François Hollande. For the most part, that should cheer Labour: President Hollande is, after all, a wonkish and non-traditional leader...
Read More

What I learned at the People’s Assembly

The People’s Assembly was an event for people who think that listing things you do not like in increasingly emotive terms will lead inevitably to the triumph of the things you do like. The day opened with a worthless plenary, but opening plenaries are always worthless...
Read More

Syria: how did we reach this point?

There exists a dangerous tendency on the left which believes that government is a place where everything is beautiful, and nothing hurts. This week has been a reminder that government is frequently a place where nothing is beautiful and everything hurts. The 2012 case...
Read More

Why 1983 is still important today

Success has many fathers, particularly if you are a member of Labour’s hard-left and you are discussing elections. The triumphs of 1997, 2001, or 2005 have any number of antecedents: Black Wednesday, John Major, John Redwood, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard,...
Read More
Debating the burka

Debating the burka

Sep 17, 2013 |

I went to a school that was majority Muslim. I also went to a school that banned the burka. Unlike in Birmingham,...