"In 2010, Liberal Democrats were elected on a social liberal manifesto, in keeping with the party's traditional, left-of-centre, radical progressivism," she said".Yet during the 2010 parliament, the leadership and their senior staff were, for the first time, able to control the party's direction.
The result, "True Progressivism", was a blend of the two: neither right nor left, but all the better for it, and coming instead from what we like to call the radical centre.
For a progressive to acknowledge as much is tantamount to abandoning progressivism.
The peace plan, announced by the president, Benigno Aquino, on October 7th (see article), is the first real chance to end a conflict that has rumbled on for decades in Mindanao, killing perhaps 120,000 people and displacing 2m.In this section True Progressivism A European mega-merger?
Many give up and go elsewhere.In this section True Progressivism A European mega-merger?
His clean-politics theme appeals to his state's political culture: anti-money progressivism flourished in Wisconsin at the turn of the century, and still colours local attitudes.
Yet arguments over this very progressivism led to deep divisions within the party, and a painful rupture between the arrogant Roosevelt and the far more cautious Taft.
Double jeopardy does not apply to the banks: the end of an investigation by one agency does not mean an end to scrutiny by others.In this section True Progressivism A European mega-merger?
But these cautious notes were rather like the health warning on a cigarette carton, which fails to counter the alluring message of the rest of the packaging.Though progressivism had become the orthodoxy by the mid-1970s, things did not turn out in the way that the Plowden committee had intended.
Success would vindicate both democracy and progressivism.What sort of progressivism? "We are a party of attitudes rather than a party of ideas," says Mr Buarque.
I had to teach my children the value of sharing and that lesson should not be lost on those who reap disproportionate gains that to me look like nothing more than psychopathic hoarding.Sandra Turnbull Oakland, California * SIR – Once again The Economist wrongly assumes that targeting the poor supports progressivism.
