Neal Lawson Articles

Shadow home affairs minister Gloria de Piero kicked off the Progress annual conference breakout debate, Doorstep challenge: Can we win on crime and immigration?, focusing on antisocial behaviour. She said that the government was turning the clock back. In the most...

In Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall the main character, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer, notes that ‘sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad: sun, milk, red meat, college.' I was reminded of this line sitting through Tuesday night’s Progress...

I used a recent LabourList post to take issue with four of David Miliband's seven points in his recent New Statesman article. I'm grateful to Neal Lawson of Compass for reminding me this week why I have a lot more in common with David Miliband than with his critics....

A battle is being waged by the thinkers of Labour’s soft left. The likes of Neal Lawson, John Harris, David Clark, Polly Toynbee and Jackie Ashley, who provided the dissenting spur and ideological passion behind Ed Miliband’s leadership bid, fear they may be losing...