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Strong medicine
MARK SCULPHER: The UK already overpays for branded drugs - the government must resist pressure for further price rises
Read more Health
Shoot for the moon
ALFRED SLADE: Public health interventions are some of the clearest examples of effective government - as a result, they can help contain the rise of populism
Read more Health
Grave responsibility
ROMILLY GREENHILL: The UK aid cuts will cost lives, with consequences for us all
Read more International relations
Road to recovery
Wes Streeting has one of the toughest jobs in politics: putting the NHS back on track. He talks to IGGY WOOD about Labour’s 10-year plan – and how he pushes for change from inside the cabinet
Read more Health / Foreign policy / LGBTQ+
Great exploitations
ANNA GANLEY: The government needs to introduce tighter regulations to protect authors' copyright against AI
Read more Artificial intelligence / Arts and creative industries
No place like home
SARAH RUSSELL MP: Australia shows what the right to home working could look like
Read more Employment
Zero tolerance
MICHAEL WHEELER MP: Labour's plan to offer guaranteed hours contracts to all workers will be transformational – but only if we get it right
Read more Employment
Growing pains?
DAVID LAWRENCE: The truism that economic growth threatens the climate may not be true after all
Read more Environment
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Silent majority
29 January 2026
TIM ROOT: Tackling the climate crisis depends on uniting a wider cross-section of voters
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Great places to live
15 January 2026
BEN COOPER: If the government is to build 1.5m new homes this parliament - they must be great places to live
Continue Reading Housing
Whose BBC?
16 December 2025
TOM CHIVERS: The choice is a democratic BBC or no BBC at all
Continue Reading Media
Beyond transparency
25 November 2025
ALEX PARSONS AND JULIA CUSHION: Clarity around political gifts and donations is valuable - but not enough
Continue Reading Democracy
Changing tack
19 November 2025
IGGY WOOD: The government should reverse its proscription of Palestine Action and set out to cultivate lively informed debate
Continue Reading Foreign policy / Democracy
Joining the dots
17 November 2025
LAUREN EDWARDS MP: The government, employers and educators need to work together
Continue Reading Employment / EducationOur publications
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Testing Times
The aim of this collection of short essays, edited by Ed Turner, Luke Raikes and Iggy Wood, is to dive into debates about devolution across Europe, often triggered by experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, to inform the UK as it considers reform in th...
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Beyond numbers
For many years, England has been in the grip of a disastrous housing crisis. Chronically low rates of building have made both renting and buying a home extraordinarily expensive, and millions are suffering as a result.
Quantity, however, is not th...
Nye's lost legacy
Against the backdrop of Sir Charlie Mayfield’s independent investigation into healthy and inclusive work, Sasjkia Otto sets out an ambitious vision for a universal and integrated occupational health system, matched by rights and responsibilities. In ...
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Forward Planning
This report sets out how the government can ensure that owner-occupiers are able to age well in their own home. It identifies the scale of the challenge faced by older owner-occupiers, the barriers to improving housing, and the case for action. The r...
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Rural futures
This pamphlet brings together rural MPs with a variety of experts and policymakers to explore the future of our countryside. As the authors set out, the potential of Britain’s rural areas is immense. By seeing rural areas as an social and economic as...
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Pressing issues
In this pamphlet, journalists and experts set out the problems that characterise the media landscape, propose a range of changes to improve standards, and set out how the government can uphold the rights of journalists both at home and around the wor...
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Ill-prepared
In this report, Eloise Sacares and Luke Raikes make the case for sick pay for the self-employed, review support in the UK and other countries, and set out recommendations for the government to consider.
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Levying up
The Labour government has committed to reforming the apprenticeship levy into a ‘growth and skills levy’, giving employers more flexibility. In this report, general secretary Joe Dromey and senior researcher Sasjkia Otto set out a series of recommend...
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Repair, reuse, recycle
This policy briefing sets out how government policy can upscale the circular economy. It first sets out the key features of the circular economy in England, before identifying practical steps to reduce unnecessary waste and upscale the circular econo...
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Equal Footing
Anneliese Dodds MP explains how Labour's ambitious agenda to tackle inequality will benefit us all.
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Whatever the Weather
Fabian Society researcher Eloise Sacares makes the case for climate adaptation, identifying three key areas of life which will be severely impacted by climate change and in which practical changes in government policy could make a significant differe...
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The Final Furlong
In spite of Labour's extremely strong polling numbers over the past year, there has been continuing media speculation about a hung parliament. The Fabian Society undertook research during summer 2023 to understand voters’ preferred election outcomes...
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By the People, With the People
In this pamphlet, Charlotte Augst and Paul Corrigan set out to identify the factors that have scuppered progress on health system reform, and refine the calls for change into two simple questions. First, how can the NHS work with people to keep them ...
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In Tandem
Michael Jacobs, Robert Calvert Jump, Jo Michell and Frank van Lerven scrutinise the lack of cooperation between the UK government and the Bank of England, and propose a new Economic Policy Coordinating Committee to help achieve the multiple objective...
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Equality and empowerment
Fabian Society research director Luke Raikes sets out to make a progressive case for devolving public spending, raising important questions about how public money can be used more effectively to deliver policy objectives.
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