News & Insight

20 June 2016

The referendum was never meant to be so close. By now the Remain strategy – centred on wheeling out economists, politicians and business brains to warn of Brexit’s threat to the economy – was meant to have ‘won’ enough daily...

17 June 2016

The repercussions of the global financial crisis still shape European politics. First, large public deficits developed as governments, in order to avoid a global depression, bailed out banks and propped up economies. This gave an opening to politicians on the...

17 June 2016

In December 2015 Jo Cox wrote her first essay for the Fabian Society, as part of our pamphlet Outward to the World. We hoped then that it would be her first of many Fabian publications, not the last. In ‘A...

16 June 2016

Andrew Harrop, Fabian Society general secretary said: The Fabian Society is devastated to hear of the tragic loss of our friend Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen. Our thoughts are with Brendan, their children and all her friends and...

16 June 2016

As an elected member of Leeds City Council, the biggest local authority north of Birmingham, discussions of devolution and the northern powerhouse are never too far away. There are lots of reasons for Labour councillors to be excited about the prospect...

15 June 2016

With eight days to go until polling day, the referendum debate has become increasingly dominated by immigration. Many in the Remain camp, particularly on the Labour side, are (rightly) worried that anxiety about immigration is driving Labour voters toward Brexit. For...