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The latest news, analysis and opinion from the Fabian Society including highlights from the Fabian Review and web-exclusive commentary and insight.
Cutting edge
STEPHEN WEBB: Research and innovation will be critical to implementing Labour's five missions
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Buds of change
After 13 years as Fabian general secretary, ANDREW HARROP argues that Labour has the opportunity to transform our country
Read more Labour party / Good government
Your Time Starts Now – Vol 1
The first instalment of Your Time Starts Now, an analysis of the pressing first-term issues Labour faces, originally published in the autumn 2024 edition of the Fabian Review. Featuring ELOISE SACARES and MELANIE SMALLMAN.
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In harmony
TARIQ MODOOD: The recent riots demonstrated the need to revisit our concepts of identity and citizenship - we must build a new multicultural nationalism.
Read more Communities / Diversity / Race
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Your Time Starts Now – Vol 3
16 October 2024
The third instalment of Your Time Starts Now, an analysis of the pressing first-term issues Labour faces, originally published in the autumn 2024 edition of the Fabian Review. Featuring RICHARD ANGELL, OLIVER WALSH and NATALIE PERERA on seizing 'easy wins' to improve lives while spending less
Continue Reading Health / Education / Housing
Your Time Starts Now – Vol 2
10 October 2024
The second instalment of Your Time Starts Now, an analysis of the pressing first-term issues Labour faces, originally published in the autumn 2024 edition of the Fabian Review. Featuring TRACY BRABIN, PAUL SWINNEY, SASJKIA OTTO AND BEV CRAIG
Continue Reading Devolution / Economy
Voice of experience
26 September 2024
Thirty years after he helped define the New Labour agenda, David Blunkett is still going strong. He talks to IGGY WOOD about the challenges of government and Labour’s next steps
Continue Reading Labour party / Conservatives / Good government / Immigration
One year on
20 September 2024
LLOYD HATTON MP: The sorry saga of the Bibby Stockholm will soon come to an end as Labour hits reset on the asylum crisis
Continue Reading Immigration
Changing course
19 September 2024
TIM ROOT: Rachel Reeves's first budget will define our ability to tackle the climate crisis
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Building a case
17 September 2024
JOHN MORRISON: The government's plans for a state-owned energy company will require public buy-in – Labour must start winning over voters now
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When I'm 64
Fabian Society senior researcher Sasjkia Otto looks at the roots of pre-retirement poverty and presents a strategy to address it.
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Caring for Carers
Fabian Society researcher Eloise Sacares and general secretary Andrew Harrop present a series of policy options for the employment and financial protections of unpaid carers.
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Climbing the Mountain
This report identifies 150 non-Labour seats on the new boundaries which will likely make up a very high proportion of the constituencies that Labour will target at the next election.
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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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Working Nein to Five
Fabian Society senior researcher Sasjkia Otto asks what we can learn from Germany about work-life balance.
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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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Plans for Power
This pamphlet is a compilation of some of the most important ideas developed and championed by the Fabian Society in recent years. It is a ‘mixtape’ of the best proposals, from early years to pensions and from the future of work to public service ref...
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A good life in all regions
The report of the Fabian Society's Commission on Regional Poverty and Inequality concludes that the UK has two major regional economy challenges – ‘low growth’ outside the south east, where places lack good jobs; and ‘overheating’ in the capital, whe...
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Lawful and fair
In this pamphlet, Will Somerville and Sarah Mulley set out robust proposals to reform our migration system. They argue that it must be based on sound principles: it must be fair, it must be grounded in democratic consent, and it must respect people’s...
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Support guaranteed
Plans for a National Care Service for England were first presented 13 years ago in the dying days of the last Labour government. Since then no detailed work has taken place to flesh out what the service might look like or how it should be implemented...
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Britain Reconnected
In this publication, David Lammy MP identifies the major geopolitical trends that will shape the UK's place in the world, and sets out the next Labour government’s approach to foreign policy
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