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Labour's New Towns: Building communities
7 January 2014
In planning to build five new towns, shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds has an opportunity to spark a vital connection to the future from Labour’s past. The postwar new towns borrowed from an Edwardian environmental tradition but were essentially a Labour...
Continue ReadingMiliband is right to tackle cheap foreign labour
6 January 2014
I am delighted that Ed Miliband has announced that Labour will work with businesses to promote equal pay and conditions for agency staff across Europe. Our newspapers report daily how people blame Europe for immigration and this run-up to the new...
Continue Reading£25 billion of welfare cuts: thinking the unthinkable...or the unelectable?
6 January 2014
This morning George Osborne has promised to slash spending after the next election by £25 billion, with the bulk of the savings to come from the social security budget. The news comes the day after the Prime Minister promised to...
Continue Reading130 years of the Fabian Society: Small footsteps to big changes
4 January 2014
4th January 2014 is the 130th birthday of the Fabian Society. Fabianism has never been a dogmatic creed, which is why the Society has been able to provide an intellectual home to so many famous political figures since it was founded...
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday! 130 years of the Fabian Society
4 January 2014
On January 4th 1884, one-hundred and thirty years ago in London, history was made. A Christian socialist group called the Fellowship of New Life was divided. Two competing primary objectives were tested, that of socialist spiritualism and another of economic...
Continue Reading2014, Labour's year of...Tackling zero hours contracts
3 January 2014
Better jobs and more secure work are vital to tackling the cost of living crisis facing families across Britain. In our lives work gives us purpose and a sense of worth, and most importantly helps us pay the bills that...
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