Inequalities in wealth are far greater than inequalities in income on which most tax policy discussion has focused. However, different kinds of wealth require different kinds of taxation, and there are a range of potential policy options we can consider,...
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The election of Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership owed much to his brave assertion that austerity is the wrong response to recession and that a successful economic policy should address the goals of improving our productive capacity and a...
How would you like £3,166 a year of free money from the government? Sounds too good to be true? Well if you’re in a reasonably paid job that’s exactly what you’ll be getting when the new financial year starts in...
Today over a thousand Fabian members and supporters are gathering to debate how the Labour Party must face the future, and make itself relevant and electable for the 2020s. After the Party has spent months talking to itself, there could...
The Fabian Society sends many warm congratulations to Sadiq Khan on his selection as Labour’s Mayoral Candidate for London.
Sadiq is a leading member of the society’s elected executive committee and was chair of the society from 2008 to 2010. In...
The polls were the source of false hope. Not just national polls but constituency polls, which appeared to give a more fine-grained and accurate picture of what was happening on the ground.
In fact, what the national polls showed in England...