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The latest news, analysis and opinion from the Fabian Society including highlights from the Fabian Review and web-exclusive commentary and insight.

Opinion

“We fought a static, two dimensional campaign in a dynamic, three dimensional era”

20 July 2015

Labour lost badly in May and there is no doubt that the task of winning power in 2020 is daunting. We will need to present the British people with a compelling offer that responds to the economic and social realities...

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"Labour is not simply a machine that kicks into gear at election time"

20 July 2015

It’s a number of months since we lost the election in May but still, for many of us, the pain of losing is unabated. With five long years stretching ahead of us, watching the Tories dismantling the welfare state, demoralising...

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“We need to challenge the idea that England is natural Conservative territory”

20 July 2015

Is this as bad as it gets? In 2010, when we scraped just 29 per cent of the vote, Labour’s worst performance for almost a century, we told ourselves it was. It couldn’t get any worse. But five years later,...

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The deputy leader must be a champion for members

17 July 2015

I've just come back from my local branch meeting. We had one of the highest turn outs we've had in a long time, our (predominantly new and female) members engaged and willing to learn and debate about the values and...

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Breaking the mould

17 July 2015

'One nation' Labour didn’t work. It was nothing more than a brand, with no intellectual innovation; a cheap attempt to package some of the obvious established truths of the modern labour movement into a bland inoffensive narrative, that claimed to...

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DevoManc: A rush to devolve political blame?

16 July 2015

Fabians have been intensely involved in the NHS since its birth and long may our engagement – as clinicians, NHS staff, analysts and political supporters of the collective interest in good health – continue. Our aim is, at one and...

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