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The Inequality Election
8 April 2015
Politics is fragmenting and it seems another inconclusive election is before us. The established Westminster parties have failed to find an answer to public disenchantment, as people say ‘you’re all the same’. But this year the choice between a Labour...
Continue Reading Economy / InequalityA new public realm: Notes from urban India
27 March 2015
For anyone with a feel for recent British history, it was a heart-breaking scene: a brand new estate of social housing blocks, sat on the edge of city. The residents newly ‘decanted’ miles from their jobs and social networks, with...
Continue Reading Housing / InequalityPublic opinion and the EU
25 March 2015
With the prospect of an in/out referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) looming in the next few years, you might expect the issue to be exercising voters ahead of May’s election. On the face of it, however, we...
Continue ReadingFarewell to Marcus Roberts
24 March 2015
The Fabian Society is sad to announce that our deputy general secretary Marcus Roberts has decided to leave the organisation after the general election to take up an exciting new position. Marcus has been with the Fabians for 3 ½...
Continue ReadingWhy our green space are facing an existential crisis
20 March 2015
Over the course of the next parliament, our green spaces face an existential crisis. In rosier economic times, the last Labour government embarked on a major program of investment in the public realm. There was not just a sense that...
Continue ReadingWhy the EU is the next battleground in the fight against sanitary taxes
19 March 2015
Mooncups, tampons and sanitary pads have been taxed for almost half a century on “luxury, non-essential” grounds. Just because a male dominated parliament in 1973 confused what was essential for millions of people within the UK, with what was immediately...
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