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A new hope v the old attitudes
The question of how best to build the progressive fight back was the subject of the Left Foot Forward/Labour List fringe meeting at the Compass ‘A New Hope‘ post-election conference at the Institute of...
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Compass must practice what it preaches on pluralism
Compass does not allow members of political parties other than Labour full membership. It is considering changing that rule – it must make the change, if chair Neal Lawson’s claim that Compass is a...
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MPs call for end to loan sharking
This week the ‘End Legal Loan Sharking’ campaign working with Lisa Nandy, newly elected Labour MP for Wigan, have tabled an early day motion to bring attention to the issue of legal loan sharking and...
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Socialism is Democracy: Labour should accept AV
This week MPs have voted in support of a Bill which would mean that next May the country would get to decide on whether they want to stick with FPTP (first past the post) or switch to AV (Alternative...
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Evan Harris: Progressive coalition in 2015 “if the arithmetic is there”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris has said his party and Labour need to be in a postion to form a progressive coalition after the next election. The ex-MP for Oxford West and Abingdon – who...
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Public unaware of just how much those at the very top are paid
Zoe Gannon is head of research and clerk to the High Pay Commission Today is the official launch of an independent inquiry into high pay. The aptly named High Pay Commission has been established by...
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Time to muzzle the legal loan sharks
Lisa Nandy is the Labour MP for Wigan The term ‘social exclusion’ is overused in politics despite being a nebulous term that covers such a vast range of social ills. “Financial exclusion”, however,...
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A blueprint for real banking sector reform
By Shezal Laing and William Cass When George Osborne sat down with the major players in the banking sector to try and agree a deal and begin the long process of banking reform we all waited with bated...
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With Plan B, we can have a good economy for a good society
One year on from the Emergency Budget and the Spending Review, it is becoming abundantly clear the coalition government’s austerity plan – Plan A – isn’t working. Economic growth has been negligible...
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Everyone agrees mutualism helps, but where’s the action?
Nick Clegg’s speech on the “John Lewis economy” at CentreForum yesterday certainly hit the headlines, writes Chris Nicholson, CentreForum’s director and chief executive. All three party leaders seem...
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We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
The UK housing debate is increasingly focused on who the housing system serves: the nation’s needs or vested interests that seek to preserve tenure-based wealth inequalities. Home ownership lobbies,...
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The left must confront the EU’s shortcomings and offer an alternative
TweetDemocratisation of Europe has to be front and centre of a progressive vision It’s a fairly obvious truism that this is a critical time for the future of the European Union and the UK’s...
View ArticleCompass urge Labour and Greens to stand aside in Richmond
The left-wing think tank Compass have today called on Labour and the Greens to give the Liberal Democrats a free run in the upcoming Richmond by-election. The by-election follows Tory MP Zac...
View ArticleSurrey Labour activists expelled for backing pro-NHS ‘progressive alliance’...
Photo: Dr Louise Irvine is running against health secretary Jeremy Hunt. UPDATE: Two other senior Labour members in Surrey have now been expelled on similar grounds A senior Labour party member in...
View ArticleBrexit: Why we need to stop talking about GDP and start talking about the...
A few months before Britain voted to leave the European Union, a debate took place in Newcastle. A professor from King’s College London had travelled to the area to discuss the economic impact of the...
View ArticleHousing for all could be the solution to a divided Brexit Britain
The vast majority of the British public agree that we are in the throes of a housing crisis, but on the face of it housing issues did not play an instrumental role in the decision to leave the European...
View ArticleA more humane welfare state is needed – if we want to salvage Brexit Britain
While the defence of the EU during the referendum campaign was all about statistics, economic assessments and expert opinions, the critique was crude: ‘a Europe of the bosses’, ‘a vanity project’,...
View ArticleThe best way to challenge anti-immigration zealots? Devolve migration policy
Pic: Would regional migration policies end the appeal of Nigel Farage? ‘It’s like this mad riddle.’ Thus spoke Danny Dyer, the sage of Brexit. He wasn’t wrong. Nowhere are the contradictions thrown up...
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We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
The UK housing debate is increasingly focused on who the housing system serves: the nation’s needs or vested interests that seek to preserve tenure-based wealth inequalities. Home ownership lobbies,...
View ArticleThe left must confront the EU’s shortcomings and offer an alternative
Democratisation of Europe has to be front and centre of a progressive vision It’s a fairly obvious truism that this is a critical time for the future of the European Union and the UK’s relationship...
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