The air hangs heavy with a sense of economic dread. We are in a technical recession and the country is growing slower now than when the Prime Minister took office. Businesses are hesitant to invest, consumers are tightening their belts, and the UK stock market isn’t competing with its counterparts
Tomorrow, Jeremy Hunt will deliver the seventh fiscal statement is less than two years. If the spectacle of this administrative chaos was bad enough, his Government’s record on economic growth is far more troubling. Their dismal record on growth is so bad that if our economy had just grown as
Two years ago, I wrote for Progressive Britain about the need to increase the number of women elected as councillors and how the Labour Party can achieve this. Despite the efforts of the Labour Party, the LGA Labour Group, Labour Women’s Network and many local parties, there’s been little progress
In the swirl of government alphabet and number soup, the “114 notice” has appeared far more regularly in the last few years. A section of the Local Government Act 1988, the 114 has become the byword for a local authority in financial difficulties and the well-trodden route for these councils,
It was an honour to chair the timely Progressive Britain event “Labour and the long fight: How should the next government support Ukraine?” with Ivanna Klumpush, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Luke Pollard, Shadow Defence Minister, Paul Mason, Journalist and Commentator, Jessica Toale, Co-chair of the Labour Foreign Policy
It is with deep regret the Labour Party had to withdraw support from its candidate, but it was the right decision nonetheless and a sign of how far the party has come in tackling antisemitism by its roots. Galloway’s victory in Rochdale brings great shame, not only for our democracy
George Galloway’s victory last night in the Rochdale by-election serves as a stark reminder of the dangers posed by political opportunists who thrive on division and controversy. Galloway, a political parasite, has built his career on exploiting sectarian tensions and promoting divisive rhetoric, particularly within Muslim communities. He leaves a
How can women and girls trust the police at any time, let alone in a week like this? The Angiolini Inquiry into the Sarah Everard case has again brought into focus both police failures and the misogyny still present in our police force. Also this week, there was finally a
The Second Law of Thermodynamics. I know, bear with me. It governs entropy, the natural and unrelenting process whereby everything is coming apart, degrading, disintegrating. It quantifies the amount of energy required to merely keep all things, very literally, from falling apart. To stop the world around us from vanishing
Social democracy is like painting the Forth Bridge: a ceaseless task of applying progressive values to civilise capitalism. In foreign policy, these values are much harder to deploy in building bridges and challenging hostile actors.Labour’s multi-pronged policy combines securing national interests, which we define differently from the Conservatives, driving development
