News & Insight

9 January 2013

The terminology is different but 70 years after the Beveridge report, 'ignorance' is still a giant to be slain. In the decades since the report the lives of hundreds of thousands of people have been transformed by the opportunities that...

9 January 2013

In his 1942 report William Beveridge said: “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not patching”. The challenges presented by our ageing population require as great a revolution in our health and care system today...

7 January 2013

Predistribution is an ugly, wonkish and in fact misleading term that in my view should be banned from the lips of politicians. Yet the sentiment behind it is fundamental to any future progressive agenda. What I think predistributionites are saying is...

7 January 2013

Ending poverty should be seen as an integral part of economic policy, not the enemy of or disconnected from it. The coalition's policies are set to cause terrible hardship. Already, there's a shameful rise in the numbers of people having to...

4 January 2013

It is very easy to say that everyone who can work should work. It is also something that most people would agree with, including those who are out of work. However, finding and keeping a job is not always easy,...

1 January 2013

As we hurry on to a new year, we at the Fabians will be taking many of the lessons learned and fresh thinking with us onwards into 2013. Not least in the form of the contributions to our The Shape...