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I know exactly what it feels like to want to attend a grammar school. I decided early on that I did not want to attend the feeder secondary school in my town. I had experienced so much bullying already about a sexuality I did not yet know I…
Yesterday the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected to his post. He has been in power for a year now. He was intact, in power all summer. And today he stood in the pulpit and pulled back from the speech he needed to give. Instead he…
Today I will be at Brighton Pride with LGBT Labour, marching for rights and recognition, celebrating the great strides forward. Since 2001 the legal situation for LGBT people in the United Kingdom has been transformed. But not for all of…
The British public's decision to pull out of the European Union has shaken our politics and the economy. In turn the implications on our public services will catch up. And they are likely to be huge. Mark Carney’s injection of £250bn into…
A picture of Ed Miliband appears on the wall in the Australian Labor party campaign headquarters. Above the sign reads "don't be them". United Kingdom Labour's high expectations and crushing defeat in 2015 had huge implications for social…
Open letter to Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol from Richard Angell, Director of Progress Dear Iain, The rise in anti-semitism in our party has received much media attention in the last six months. It has sadly become an all too…
In November I wrote an editorial for Progress magazine headlined We need to talk about... losing'. At the time the Labour Party was telling itself that the fact that 450,000 people voted in a Labour leadership election in September 2015…
The team of spin doctors around Seumas Milne are colluding with Ruth Davidson's Scottish Tories in the expectations game for Jeremy Corbyn's first real electoral test in May. Both of them want people and the media to think that Scottish…
As I’m the director of Progress, I doubt many will be surprised I didn’t get the email inviting to join Momentum, the new “grassroots network” and “social movement” being built from the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. I won’t pretend to have…
Nostalgia is to modernising politics, what rust is to iron. Corrosive. Modernisers in the Labour Party have been dealt a heavy blow. Our candidate Liz Kendall did us proud but the result shows the challenge we face to win over our fellow…
The debate goes that Jeremy Corbyn is the heart, Liz Kendall is the head. He speaks to true Labour values. The latter can convince once-Tory voters – critical to Labour’s future prospects – back to our party. The others split the…
Elections are simple affairs in a first-past-the-post country. The task of the candidate is to get more votes than their opponent. Not 50 per cent of the vote, nor a reliance on being enough people's second preferences to deny your…
