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Of mandarins and ministers: Securing power, not just office

Ed Miliband’s Labour government will take office in the toughest of circumstances: our public services on the rack because of cuts, a weak economy with hesitant growth based upon personal debt, housing assets and consumer spending, and with a record...

Fifteen for 2015

Labour’s strength rests with its people. The Tories have their millions of pounds from the City, but Labour has tens of thousands of living, breathing activists spreading the gospel of a more equal society door to door, letterbox to letterbox.

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Why it matters: ten years of the Fabian Women's Network

I feel very privileged to chair the Fabian Women’s Network in these fascinating times: women are still making advances in every country and in every sector. Over the past decade a lot has been achieved in terms of women’s rights...

Dangerous giveaways: Osborne's pension reforms

It is hardly unusual for pre-election Budgets to be packed full of attractive giveaways and high-publicity bribes for voters in the run up to polling day. Indeed, the last Labour government was no less prone to this sort of political...

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