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Freezing energy prices: The facts
29 October 2013
Politics is not won and lost in PMQs performances. Politics is something that happens in the homes and workplaces of people across the country. And right now it’s at the kitchen table where many families are making the choice between...
Continue Reading EnergyStudents as citizens
29 October 2013
Labour is at an exciting juncture in its schools policy. Most recently, the party has confronted some of the absurdities of the free schools policy and advanced its own alternative of parent-led academies. What these will look like is the...
Continue ReadingHow our pensions could tackle climate change
29 October 2013
With the record of 400 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere this year, if we continue pumping carbon out at our current rate our planet will be four degrees warmer by the end of the century. The climate...
Continue Reading Business / Economy / PensionsChild poverty: What difference does a century make?
28 October 2013
When the Fabian Women’s Group published ‘Round about a pound a week’ in 1913 it caused quite a stir. The pamphlet’s edge came not just from its forensic analysis of over forty working families’ budgets and its relentless account of...
Continue Reading Childcare / EconomyGDP growth is built on pillars of sand
25 October 2013
In response to today’s announcement that GDP grew 0.8 per cent between June and September building on the previous quarter’s 0.7 per cent increase, David Cameron said the economy had “turned the corner” and George Osborne that the country was...
Continue ReadingSuper-gentrification, inequality and Islington
25 October 2013
London has become a breeding ground for inequality. Growing income disparities and the widening gap between the housing haves and have-nots are becoming increasing visible. Nef’s recent research in the London Borough of Islington exposed not only the extent and speed...
Continue Reading Economy / HousingFabian membership
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