They say that when you know you’re going to die, you don’t remember the deadlines or the car you had, you don’t wish you’d worked harder or saved more or eaten more fibre – you remember the kisses, the long sprawling days in the park with your friends, the people you loved and who loved…
The successes of Nigel Farage and UKIP in the recent local elections have already provoked much analysis. In particular, the three main parties are now engaging in an intensive period of soul searching as they think hard about how best to counter the numbers of voters opting for the anti-establishment, anti-EU party. A central component…
Andy Burnham’s plan to integrate health and social care is the boldest idea to emerge from Labour’s policy review so far. If he can convince his shadow cabinet colleagues to back it, can he convince the country in 2015? “The Labour party is going to have to decide how ambitious it wants to be,” he…
The idea of the ‘squeezed middle’ is at the heart of today’s political debates about economic recovery and living standards. It’s a pithy phrase reflecting evidence that people in the middle of the income distribution have seen their incomes stagnate while the costs of living keeps rising. But almost all the recent discussion and analysis…
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 pretty simple, and clearly true. It’s that there are severe limits to how far…
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 access food banks, and cuts to benefits, including housing benefit and benefits for children,…
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, especially for those who have a chronic illness or disability. It is not so easy…
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 of Things to Come: Labour’s New Thinking pamphlet. The essays contained in The Shape of…
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 be the party of the central manager. Above all, it needs to trust people again….
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 from real life and how Labour can help to affect real change that might, in…
2012 also saw the launch of our new Fabian policy reports, with Beveridge at 70 being the third in the series. The report includes contributions from Kate Green, Estelle Morris, Jose Harris, Anne Begg and Nick Pearce. The Beveridge report was published at the high-watermark of British solidarity. In December 1942, its bold social principles…
During 2012 we launched our online format, with A New Golden Rule: Putting the corporate sector surplus at the heart of economic decision making being the very first Fabian online report. In A New Golden Rule, Peter Kenway, Dan Corry and Steve Barwick explore how corporate sector surplus is key to economic strategy going forward…
At Fabian Regional Conference in Peterborough where @Jessica_Asato is about to kick off discussion on responsible capitalism #FabEast
Health Network launches partnership with @AMREF_UK allowing Young Fabians chance to directly support intl development http://t.co/9CylpZdH6v RT @SaveSouthBank: Great piece by @thefabians Take a look: http://t.co/fIHLFNrnf8
RT @sophie_kside: FF @BarbaraAllen8 @Uma_Kumaran @unsachaudri @abigailfwood @b_anandana some of the amazing, inspiring @FabianWomen I met this week RT @sofiejenkinson: I wrote a little piece on how important common space is &hope&skaters&politics&fighting together for what we treasure http://t.co/cLMEI9g8xK We need to talk about masculinity | Laurie Penny http://t.co/Fv26Jq2lMw via @guardian