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French lessons

Marie-Noelle Loewe argues that the birth of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche movement in France holds lessons for the moderate left here
Sometimes, history does indeed repeat itself. So September 2016 has felt a lot like September last year: waiting for the...

Resowing the seeds

The 1993 film Groundhog Day, which has just been turned into a West End musical, is the story of a man who re-lives the same day again and again, and finds that it is torture. Could this be the fate...

Shaping a green politics

Leaving the European Union creates huge risks and opportunity for our environment. A great many of the laws that protect it are underpinned by the EU, and could be at least partially unravelled should the Government have the appetite to...

Still a mountain to climb

Just after the 2015 election the Fabian Society published The Mountain to Climb, a short research paper which demonstrated just how hard it will be for Labour to win a majority at the next election, once new constituency boundaries are...

Missed opportunity


Tony Crosland set out his vision for education in The Future of Socialism.



“. . . all children can, if the society so decides, at least be given an equal chance of access to the best education. This chance does not...

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