Walthamstow Articles

I have always liked Tip O’Neill’s judgement that all politics is local. It rings true, and it comforts the weary councillor after another round of emails chasing a missed bin collection. It is why our local representatives hold more power over Labour’s national...

As part of his Real Change to Win tour, Ed Miliband was in Walthamstow today to see how Labour and Movement for Change activists are working within local communities to take practical action on the issue of ‘legal loansharking’. As a community organiser at Movement...

In February’s edition of Progress I wrote a piece provocatively entitled England shirt Labour. I called on Labour to embrace positive English patriotism – or at the very least to recognise that it exists. I added the obligatory caveat that, while we can compromise...

Housing was a mixed bag for the Labour government. Fewer policies make me prouder than the Decent Homes Programme, but we never built enough new homes where demand was highest and, too often, we sounded technocratic. We talked about houses not homes, and reeled off...