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If these walls could talk

Fabian members will probably know by now that the Fabian Society is moving from its Westminster offices at 11 Dartmouth Street to new premises just around the corner, in Petty France. You might, as I do, have mixed feelings about...

Pressures on the health and social care system

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine’ Horace

This week the College of Emergency Medicine highlighted the challenges facing emergency departments across the country with unsustainable workloads and staffing shortages. Whilst the design, funding...

The 2013 local elections in key constituencies

Introduction
This short paper, based on data, examines how the marginal constituencies which will decide the next General Election voted in the 2013 local elections.

The 2013 elections took place for the most part in the least Labour-inclined parts of England. They...

Where we want to be

They say that when you know you’re going to die, you don’t remember the deadlines or the car you had, you don’t wish you’d worked harder or saved more or eaten more fibre – you remember the kisses, the long...

Pensions at work, that work

Typically on the left when we think of pensions, we think of the state old-age pension. Labour has a proud record in defending and enhancing the state pension to prevent poverty in old age. The last Labour government focused on...

The youth vote, grey vote and ‘generational churn’

Young people often get written off in party politics. What’s the point in chasing their support when they don’t vote anyway? Well for Labour, there’s every point. Turning out first-time voters who say they support the party will play a...

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