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How Labour governs: 5 Fabian ideas

The Fabian New Year Conference on Saturday asks a fundamental question: how should Labour approach the use of state power if and when it is elected in 2015? The Fabians and others have been doing a lot work assessing New...

The five giants: Squalor

70 years on from Beveridge, housing is once again in crisis. We are just not building enough homes of any kind. Inadequate supply is keeping prices high even during the recent downturn, creating a generational divide between older households who...

The five giants: Ignorance

The terminology is different but 70 years after the Beveridge report, 'ignorance' is still a giant to be slain. In the decades since the report the lives of hundreds of thousands of people have been transformed by the opportunities that...

The five giants: Disease

In his 1942 report William Beveridge said: “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not patching”. The challenges presented by our ageing population require as great a revolution in our health and care system today...

The five giants: Want

Ending poverty should be seen as an integral part of economic policy, not the enemy of or disconnected from it.

The coalition's policies are set to cause terrible hardship. Already, there's a shameful rise in the numbers of people having to...

Perverse incentives

It is very easy to say that everyone who can work should work. It is also something that most people would agree with, including those who are out of work. However, finding and keeping a job is not always easy,...

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