The phrase "a progressive opinion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a viewpoint that is forward-thinking or advocates for social reform and change.
Example: "Her article presents a progressive opinion on climate change, urging immediate action to protect the environment."
Alternatives: "an advanced perspective" or "a forward-thinking viewpoint".
Indeed, without an urgent change in strategy, the left – perhaps all progressive opinion – will be marginalised to the point of irrelevance.
And for Alex Salmond, Scotland's most astute politician, all too aware of the grievances the English now seem to have against their Scottish neighbours, his declaration that an independent Scotland could become a "beacon of progressive opinion" for the rest of the UK was a clear attempt to rally regional support for his cause south of the border.
Mr Salmond's consultation, which will close in May, gives ground on the latter but not the former.Mr Salmond used a speech in front of a left-leaning audience in London on January 24th to argue that an independent Scotland would be a "beacon for progressive opinion south of the border".
Mr. Salmond enrages Labour by promising that Scotland will become "a beacon for progressive opinion".
Before the inevitable backlash, Popper, an émigré intellectual determined to address "the difficulties faced by our civilisation", became a touchstone for progressive opinion.
An independent Scotland can be a beacon for progressive opinion south of the border and further afield, addressing policy challenges in ways that reflect the universal values of fairness and are capable of being considered, adapted and implemented according to the circumstances and wishes within the other jurisdictions of these islands and beyond.
Blair will leave Downing Street with the Labour Party in ruins, a vast swathe of progressive opinion in near-despair, public servants demoralised, minority communities increasingly disaffected, sleaze rampant and civil liberties in greater danger than at any time since the repressive legislation of the early nineteenth century.
If you can get past those, you'll see there's a lot of good progressive opinion data on issues.
Innis and Underhill had both been members of an earlier group at the university that declared itself "dissatisfied with the policies of the two major [political] parties in Canada" and that aimed at "forming a definite body of progressive opinion".
In a Britain where the battered forces of progressive opinion urgently need to regroup and find common purpose, a constitutional guarantee to citizens of all four nations could be the best way, and perhaps the last chance, to show there is a clear and explicit vision of how the four nations can achieve more together through cooperation and sharing than we can ever do by breaking apart.
