News & Insight

8 January 2014

My alarm is a clock radio. I am woken up by the Today programme, and as I doze in bed there is always a special joy in my heart when I realise that they are running a health story. This...

8 January 2014

Reviews into the failure to protect children make for depressing reading - not just because of their subject matter. Too often we find the principal reasons for failure are the same as in previous reviews: they include not having a...

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...

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...

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...

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...