Young progressives Articles

When Tyrell Burgess, academic and innovative educational thinker, was asked to write a Labour party pamphlet on education he found himself ‘depressed about the lack of real planning ... I could only bring myself to say no more than we would “make a start”’. That was...

The Helena Kennedy Foundation works with students in further education progressing to higher education. When students’ main concern is the cost associated with studying, it comes as little surprise that the first year of university tuition fees set with the maximum...

The Labour party of 1997 – at least, the driving force behind it – grew up in irrelevance. Muted by the dogma of the 1980s, walking into campaigns with electoral suicide notes; it is little wonder that Tony Blair considered leaving politics completely. 1997 ‘happened’...

It started with a wink and a nudge, the appointment of Jon Cruddas to a major policy brief. It continued with Ed Balls winking even more and a guest appearance by Peter Mandelson. But the news that Labour was considering a referendum on European Union membership has...