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Fifteen for 2015: Jess Asato - One of our own
27 April 2015
The Young Fabians are proud to call Jess Asato one of our own. A long-standing member of the executive committee and Chair in 2003/04, Jess continues to support the organisation that became her first political home to this day- speaking...
Continue ReadingThe challenge for labour: Digital opportunities for prosperity
23 April 2015
The general election campaign has focused heavily on the state of the British economy, with debate centred on the scale and pace of deficit reduction as well as the fair distribution of the subsequent burden. This is as it should...
Continue Reading Economy / Employment / Technology / WorkOf mandarins and ministers: Securing power, not just office
23 April 2015
Ed Miliband’s Labour government will take office in the toughest of circumstances: our public services on the rack because of cuts, a weak economy with hesitant growth based upon personal debt, housing assets and consumer spending, and with a record...
Continue ReadingFifteen for 2015
23 April 2015
Labour’s strength rests with its people. The Tories have their millions of pounds from the City, but Labour has tens of thousands of living, breathing activists spreading the gospel of a more equal society door to door, letterbox to letterbox. It’s...
Continue ReadingWhy it matters: ten years of the Fabian Women's Network
22 April 2015
I feel very privileged to chair the Fabian Women’s Network in these fascinating times: women are still making advances in every country and in every sector. Over the past decade a lot has been achieved in terms of women’s rights...
Continue ReadingDangerous giveaways: Osborne's pension reforms
22 April 2015
It is hardly unusual for pre-election Budgets to be packed full of attractive giveaways and high-publicity bribes for voters in the run up to polling day. Indeed, the last Labour government was no less prone to this sort of political...
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