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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.

A nation of innovation

29 January 2013

When I was growing up the north east was the UK’s industrial powerhouse. Quite literally: the coal which fed the power stations which fuelled our industry was beneath our feet. Across Newcastle, the end of the school year would see...

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Rethinking Europe in the crisis

28 January 2013

The central message of this collection is that the ground has shifted. The financial crisis discredited the neoliberal agenda, which had been in the ascendant since the 1980s. European social democracy found itself on the back foot, having bought into...

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Who we are is about where we live

24 January 2013

The surprising joy of Ed Milliband’s party conference coinage of ‘one nation’ Labour is that it invokes and requires a number of concrete choices about how we govern ourselves. It is a genuine political intervention and requires a considered political...

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Green Social Democracy

21 January 2013

We are living through not one but two crises of capitalism. The first one – the economic crisis which has followed the financial crash of 2008 – everyone knows about.  The second is less familiar.  This is the crisis of...

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Cameron is putting party before country

17 January 2013

Ed Miliband is right: when it comes to Europe it's the same old Tories - a divided party and a weak prime minister. In his speech tomorrow, Cameron will seek to appease his vociferous Eurosceptics and by doing so, put...

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How to regulate private landlords

17 January 2013

It was a very proud moment for me to hear the Labour party leader, Ed Miliband, mention me in his speech to the Fabian New Year Conference last Saturday, following my submission on the Your Britain website. I suggested how...

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