News & Insight

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...

1 January 2013

The pamphlet that hit doorsteps alongside the Autumn 2012 Fabian Review was Letting Go: How Labour can learn to stop worrying and trust the people by Jon Wilson. Wilson argues that Labour needs to become a movement rooted in people’s experience, not...

31 December 2012

As 2012 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on how Westminster might be able to make itself more representative of the population in the future. Hazel Blears MP explores a Westminster which, she says, people feel is divorced...