Foreword – Luciana Berger MP
I am delighted to be associated with this new collection of essays from some of Labour’s activists and writers. Pragmatic…
Category: Articles
Introduction – John Slinger
Pragmatic Radicalism: Ideas from Labour’s New Generation does what it says on the tin and no more. The articles do…
James Allen – Building Labour’s big answer to Cameron’s ‘Big Society’
The Big Society is what David Cameron sees as his big idea and what he would like to be his…
Josie Cluer – Talking about public service reform: values first, the policies will follow
From the closure of 400 Sure Start centres to the NHS “Bill with no friends” opposed by the BMA, the…
Samantha Dowling – Jungle Book politics
Whoever we are, however old we get, we care about what people think. Some care more than others and take…
Dan Fox – Appetite for optimism: progress, growth and a culture of resilience
“To fight for a better Britain. That kind of caper.” Major Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott, 1986. One of the…
Michael Harris – The re-birth of liberal Labour
“It is fashionable among some sections of the left to dismiss civil liberties as bourgeois, liberal ideals – a notion…
Gary Kent – Iraq and liberal interventionism
Liberal interventionism has been wounded – it arguably shot itself in the foot – but demands for it will recur…
Michael McCarthy – The feasibility of government regulation of big business: notes from across the pond
I am very sad to have to announce that the author of this essay, Michael McCarthy, died on 5 May…
Phil Miles – All must have value: how Labour can revitalise and reform educational status and equality of worth
In the past the sociological canon was awash with quality studies based on how young people move from school to…
