Arab Spring Articles

In times of global uncertainty, the ideas market becomes flooded with new paradigms to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Bestsellers lists are filled with innumerable tomes promising to help decision makers understand everything from the rise of China to the Arab...

In my first Progress strategy board article I attempted to set out some of the core democratic challenges that I think underpin Britain’s political health and how organisations like Progress can contribute to a radical improvement in the quality of the debate. In this...

Over a year since the first protests of the Arab Spring, and with so much hope, uncertainty and pain continuing to be felt across the Middle East, it is right that Labour is at the centre of efforts to promote the spread of democracy and respect for human rights in...

The economic roots of the Arab and Maghreb crisis have not been properly examined. The spark that fuelled the first uprising in Tunisia was the humiliation of a street vendor. Denied his chance to make some money he set himself on fire and like Jan Palach in Prague or...