You can have a Green New Deal or Brexit but not both
Thursday, May 9th, 2019I note commentators turning up on this site to say that there is no way I am progressive because I remain in favour of the
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What if politics is not a left / right spectrum? What then? Wouldn't it be better?
Monday, May 6th, 2019I have, for rather more decades than I now wish to consider, viewed politics on the left / right spectrum that we are all told
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Northern Ireland's local election results: a bad night for the Unionists
Sunday, May 5th, 2019This commentary comes from Sean Danaher on Progressive Pulse (with very slight changes to make it free-standing) and I thought well worth sharing given how little
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This morning the situation is not good, but nor is it entirely hopeless
Friday, May 3rd, 2019Council elections are, as we all know, only approximate indications as to voter intention in general elections. The variation in Labour’s performance in 2017 proved
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Scotland might need to take note of Extinction Rebellion: peaceful direct action works
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019Philip Stephens is an FT columnist for whom I have about as much enthusiasm as I do for Simon Jenkins in the Guardian. But even
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The old politics of the twentieth century is dead
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019Much as I’d like to find a silver lining in Labour’s decision on Brexit yesterday I can’t. If the policy is to a) get a
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What in God’s name?
Thursday, April 25th, 2019As the Guardian reported yesterday; Mourners at the funeral of Lyra McKee have implored politicians to turn the journalist’s murder into a turning point for
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The Green New Deal and local government
Friday, April 12th, 2019It’s easy to think the Green New Deal is all about massive programmes for change. And in part that’s true. But there is also a
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Viscount Ridley: one rule for me and another for everyone else
Friday, April 5th, 2019There was some ugliness on display in the House of Lords as some rather unsavoury arguments and methods were on display as the unelected tried
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