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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"We have to try and build a somewhat different kind of society out of the recession, going back to 'business as usual' is not right. I think the driver of the economic crisis is the fact that we have become a much more unequal society. I think we are going to have to take an awful lot of state action," warns TUC communications and campaigns head Nigel Stanley in the latest Fabian society podcast.
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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"Our campaigin in many areas is not just about just defeating the BNP, it's about leaving a civic and democratic legacy in those communities," says Sam Tarry, community organiser for the Hope Not Hate Campaign in the latest Fabian Society podcast.
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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"When David Cameron stood for leadership of the Conservative Party, I didn't vote for him as leader because to me he represented everything that through my life - I won't say that I'd hated - but that I'd been suspicious of, which was privelege and a posh accent and nice clothes," says Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, who describes her journey to becoming an enthusiastic supporter of David Cameron and his mission to "repair society" in this Fabian Society podcast.
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Fabian Society New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"I worry about the people who talk about the need for greater ideology when actually when you talk to people what they actually want is common sense politics. What we need to get to is a place where we are happier to disagree and actually be a bit more mature where we do," says Jessica Asato, acting director of Progress, in the latest Fabian Society podcast.
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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"I'm an optimist and the party has clearly decided we're up for this fight," says the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn in this Fabian Society podcast.
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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"When politicians talk about social mobility, what they really mean is they wish to change class structure of British society so everyone's working in a white collar job [...]. But the interesting thing, is that we see a party traditionally associated with blue collar employment, advocating the eradication of its traditional electoral base," says University of Strathclyde lecturer John Curtice in the latest Fabian Society podcast.
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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 podcast
"We live in a utopia, it's just not our utopia, it's the utopia of the new Right who had the audacity and the committment and the organisational skills to dream and make their world possible, and it is one where people can buy the house next door knock through and buy their kids privelige over and above everyone else's," warns political commentator Neal Lawson in the latest Fabian Society podcast.
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