Progress

Modern Times

Alex Hawley | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Alex Hawley

Here's an update: I don't need any more phone updates. My phone's already an awful lot smarter than me; no need for any more now. It tells me the time, gives me my email, lets me send and receive texts and, for those moments when waiting two seconds is too long, instant messages.

Hello New Technology, Bye Bye Common Courtesy!

Mette Poynton | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Tech
Mette Poynton

Why has common courtesy and good manners gone out the window? Is it because the world wide web is so impersonal that we don't think of those on the other end as real people? Or have we, as a people, just become more rude and indifferent and this behavior is now the norm?

Positive Change Takes Time

Jilly Forster | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Politics
Jilly Forster

With friends from the RSPCA, The Body Shop and the wider animal welfare movement, Forster is finally celebrating the EU Directive which will ban the marketing of cosmetics tested on animals. While much of Forster's client communications work can be instantly measured, evaluated, refined and adapted, it's important to note that real, enduring change takes time to bring about.

Lib Dems Offer An Olive Branch To Marginalised Labour Wing

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK Politics

The Lib Dems have offered an olive branch to the Progress wing of the Labour party by inviting them to their party conference this autumn, in the stro...

Theresa May Takes On Judges - The Political Week Ahead

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Politics

First the good news - the Leveson inquiry is not hearing from witnesses this week. It means there won't be the build-up in the media to what turns ou...

Despite Last Night's Cheering, the Challenges for Labour Remain

Robert Philpot | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Politics
Robert Philpot

While the results of the London mayoralty and Glasgow city council elections are still awaited, Labour can celebrate ejecting the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition which has controlled Birmingham for the last eight years and looks on course to pick up over 700 seats nationwide.

The Perfect English Lesson: Not What We Thought All Along!

Bansi Kara | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Bansi Kara

If there's one thing English teachers should read before they go back to work on Monday, it is the Ofsted document entitled 'Moving English Forward'.

IWD: To Celebrate or to Mark?

Myriam Francois-Cerrah | Posted 09.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Myriam Francois-Cerrah

On the 101st International Women's Day - like many women, I'm faced with a mixed bag of emotions. I want to celebrate our achievements, our gains, our pioneers - but I've also just returned from a trip to Bangladesh which was a timely reminder of why we ought to be marking, rather than celebrating, international women's day.

'Firmly In The Centre Ground'

PA | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Politics

A leading shadow cabinet Blairite warned Labour against a drift to the left today, insisting that Ed Miliband must position it as the party of "aspira...

The Rights and Wrongs of Booing KPMG

David Ritter | Posted 17.03.2012 | UK
David Ritter

If Twitter is to be believed (yes I know, I know) then there was a bit of a kerfuffle at the Fabians New Year Conference on the weekend when - it is claimed - accountancy giant KPMG was spontaneously booed by the crowd.

Start-up Memoires: August Round-Up

Louisa Leontiades | Posted 07.11.2011 | UK
Louisa Leontiades

I started a business. It made me want to drink copious quantities, smoke myself into oblivion and hit my head against a brick wall. Instead I wrote a ...