News & Insight

16 October 2014

Today marks one year since the publication of 2030 Vision the final report of the Fabian Society’s 2013 Commission on Future Spending Choices. Since then Ed Balls has announced fiscal rules which would enable the commission’s central proposals to be...

15 October 2014

It’s often said that David Cameron has a women problem but it might be fairer to say that women have a David Cameron problem. In the four short years since Cameron became prime minister his government’s austerity programme has had...

15 October 2014

This year, spurred on by social media and the effects of the recession, a new wave of feminism is continuing to gather strength at an impressive pace. Over 200,000 signatures have now gathered on the No More Page 3 petition...

14 October 2014

In a Guardian article published last week, Martin Bright, former political editor of the New Statesman and founder of youth employment charity The Creative Society, argues that our main political parties are ‘bullying’ young people into work. With recent announcements...

10 October 2014

Britain needs radical economic change. Three decades of free-market fundamentalism have failed ordinary working people and created an economy that is unfair, unstable and unsustainable. You only have to look at the so-called recovery to see how lopsided the UK...

8 October 2014

Since the 1980s, progressive politics has been rudderless. Having lost its vision of how to create a qualitatively better society for everyone, radical politics has lacked idealism, a sense of purpose and the ability to inspire. As a result, politicians...