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Winter 2025: Health Kick

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This edition of the Fabian Review focuses on health policy,  featuring Alfred Slade, Mark Sculpher, Paulette Hamilton MP, Zack Hassan, Beccy Cooper MP and Sara Hyde. Iggy Wood interviews the health secretary, Wes Streeting MP. Elsewhere, Michael Wheeler sets out how to make the zero-hours ban effective, and Claire Ainsley evaluates the lessons of recent elections in the US.

Also in this issue: Kirith Entwistle on council housing; Aoife Donaghy on AI in the civil service; Ruth Erlich on reforming the ECHR; Vittorio Trevitt on the upcoming Ghanaian general election; Romilly Greenhill on the effect of aid cuts; Sarah Russell MP on home working in Australia; David Lawrence on the relationship between growth and emissions; Anna Ganley on AI and authors; Luke Murphy MP on living standards; Miles Ward reviews Mark Perryman’s The Starmer Symptom; and Bradley Young review’s Sam Fender’s People Watching.

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Iggy Wood

Iggy Wood is the head of editorial at the Fabian Society.

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Miles Ward

Miles Ward is the membership, digital and editorial officer at the Fabian Society.

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