Today the Fabians are guest editing Labourlist to talk about the important issue of democratic reform. We’ll be posting articles covering all aspects of our democracy, including political education, voting reform and the mechanics of how our elections work...
A Labour leadership election is the time for a contest of ideas – for competing visions of the future of the left. So, on the day Jeremy Corbyn launches his bid for re-election, let’s hope that both candidates seek to...
Online voting and digital democracy
Digital democracy, the next frontier in modern democratic reform, is a concept that isn’t given the prominence it deserves in British political discourse; but it is a concept that is fundamental to bridging the widening democratic...
One year ago today, Jeremy Corbyn pledged to scrap loans for university tuition, as the flagship policy of his leadership campaign. Since then, however, the Labour leader and his frontbench have been almost silent on the topic. Corbyn said it...
As an elected member of Leeds City Council, the biggest local authority north of Birmingham, discussions of devolution and the northern powerhouse are never too far away.
There are lots of reasons for Labour councillors to be excited about the prospect...
It’s easy to forget or ignore the fact that Labour wasn’t always pro-EU. From Gaitskell’s 1000 years of history and Benn’s five questions of democracy to Castle’s Oxford Union speech: left and right have had their sceptics. Had Benn lived...
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