News & Insight

19 October 2012

It’s now 12 months since I became Fabian General Secretary and we've made some important changes: • A new look for the Fabian Review – as you’ll see we have given the magazine a complete make-over. This quarter we consider why...

19 October 2012

The Fabian Society has been enormously influential throughout its long history. More recently, while in government and in opposition, the Fabian Society’s significance to the Labour party endures. We now have a new General Secretary and senior staff. The Society...

18 October 2012

Childcare is back on the political agenda. In part this is because although Labour diminished the inequalities which entrenched during 18 years of Conservative rule (see figure 1), the party’s commitment to reduce child poverty by half was unfulfilled. Equally,...

18 October 2012

How to reconnect people with politics is a preoccupation in the Westminster village, but it is the wrong starting point. The majority of the public are not apathetic, but many are seriously disillusioned with mainstream political parties. As one of...

17 October 2012

In a new interview for the Autumn 2012 Fabian Review, the Telegraph's Mary Riddell speaks to Jon Cruddas about policy, the art of being a middleman, frustration and belief. He talks of the fine balance between Labour's grassroots and those it...

17 October 2012

We welcome YouGov’s research for the Fabian Society into the culture of politics as seen by voters and non-voters.  It gives fresh insights into the widening gulf, highlighted in the most recent Hansard Society Audit of Political Engagement, between modern...