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Read more of the Fabian Review Winter 2007

More of our Global Agenda theme

By the end of 2008 we need more than just an account of what we have got wrong, we need a practical policy agenda. Here Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala sets out ten steps to a better world

With the Government at a low ebb, the Foreign Secretary tells Tom Hampson how he is rising to the Prime Minister's challenge to combine vision and values to remake Britain's role in the world.

Sunder Katwala

Integration agenda needed to strengthen Britishness

• Poll: 50% fear divided society if we don't define what Britishness means.
• Charter: Education, constitution, equality and immigration reforms proposed.
• Fabian Review: The Britishness issue published to preview Future of Britishness conference with Gordon Brown on Saturday January 14th 2006.

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Sunder Katwala

Gordon Brown should broker a historic compromise on electoral reform by proposing the Alternative Vote alongside a second chamber elected by PR, argues Fabian general secretary Sunder Katwala in a new essay for September's Fabian Review. The plan would end a century of stalemate - and head off a legitimacy crisis under our current voting system.

Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala, Meg Munn

Howard Stoate, Bryan Jones

Is the future one of unlimited choice, the good life, a new puritanism or a retreat from global concerns? The Fabian pamphlet 2025 examines four Henley Centre scenarios for how British public attitudes could change.

Giving members more voice in policy-making requires cultural changes which will challenge the leadership and party activists, argue Tim Horton and Sunder Katwala. You can read their full submission to the NEC consultation on party democracy here, drawing on research for the Facing Out pamphlet.

Full text of the report.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats should cooperate in the cause of progressive politics, argues the leading article in the Fabian Review party conference special issue.

The call is out for new ideas for Labour's next manifesto. We asked Labour MPs what they would propose to Ed Miliband.

 The British people have a message for the prime minister: " we want a fairer Britain". Results of a Fabian poll of more than 3,000 people spells out some clear messages for the new Commission on Human Rights and Equality and the government. There is a feeling that Labour has gone so far, but could go further, says Rachael Jolley.

Leading historian Linda Colley calls for banknotes to reflect Britain's diversity.

Britain's banknotes should symbolise Britain's diversity and help to increase public knowledge of our history, says leading historian of Britishness Linda Colley in a wide-ranging interview on on identity, history and citizenship for the Fabian Review Britishness Issue, published ahead of the Fabian Society's Future of Britishness conference with Chancellor Gordon Brown on Saturday January 14th 2006.

• Poll: 50% fear divided society if we don't define what Britishness means.
• Charter: Education, constitution, equality and immigration reforms proposed.
• Fabian Review: The Britishness issue published to preview Future of Britishness conference with Gordon Brown on Saturday January 14th 2006.

The 'Britishness' debate must result in a practical integration agenda to strengthen the 'ties that bind' our society together, argue leading politicians and thinkers as an Opinion Leader Research poll shows that 50% fear that we run the real risk of a divided society if we don't define what Britishness means. The Fabian Review Britishness Issue, published on Tuesday 20th December 2005, previews the Fabian Society's Future of Britishness conference headlined by Gordon Brown on Saturday 14th January 2006.

Gordon Brown will need a 'clause IV moment' of his own, putting equality at the heart of Labour's constitution if he is to see off David Cameron's attempt to claim 'social justice' for the Conservatives.