progressives

Tactical voting is Burnham’s secret weapon

27 September 2026 7:20 pm

For Andy Burnham the biggest challenge is to avoid going down like Gordon Brown, who passed up the chance of…

Between the Iron Lady and the Wedding Cake: conflict in Belle Époque Paris

18 May 2024 9:00 am

Two 19th-century buildings perfectly symbolised the growing friction between the capital’s progressives and traditionalists – the Eiffel Tower and Montmartre’s Sacré Coeur

Why Jews don’t count to the ‘anti-racists’

4 February 2021 9:58 pm

Suppose you explain to someone spouting racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory ideas that they are prejudiced. You may begin by…

What I got right

12 December 2015 9:00 am

And what the Labour party is now getting wrong