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Publication

1 July 2025

Where's the Harm?

Gambling is often seen as just another part of our cultural – and indeed physical – landscape. Our high streets host gambling shops, our sports teams advertise gambling companies, and our digital world offers us unlimited gambling options. Yet gambling is responsible for profound personal and societal harms – not least in terms of health.

In this pamphlet, Dr Beccy Cooper MP makes the case for a fundamental shift in how we understand and respond to gambling in the UK, calling for a public health approach to gambling which prioritises prevention, regulation, and population-level protection. In doing so, she sets out a roadmap to a system which places people’s health and wellbeing ahead of corporate profit.

Where’s the harm? Health

Publication

Better Off

6 June 2025

This report shows how the government can make people better off in highly challenging circumstances. It sets out how policies can be prioritised, coordinated and communicated in practice, with three key ‘pillars’.

Better off Social security / Poverty

Publication

First Steps

25 May 2025

In this report, research manager Ben Cooper first sets out why addressing early-years poverty should be central to the government’s broader child poverty strategy. He then makes recommendations that would lift tens of thousands of babies and toddlers out of poverty and benefit many more, while navigating the fiscal and political obstacles facing the government.

First steps Early years

The Fabian Review

Spring 2025, Volume 137 - No.1

This edition of the Fabian Review focuses on the turbulent political landscape of Europe, featuring Caroline Gray, Matthias Dilling, Luke John Davies, Emma Fastesson Lindgren, and Judith Kirton-Darling. In conversation with Iggy Wood, Liam Byrne discusses inequality, populism, and sci-fi. Elsewhere, Paul Mason and Margaret Pinder discuss Labour's defence plans.