 How our justice system can help cut crime
Fabian Ideas 630
ISBN 978 0 7163 0630 6
£9.95
Edited by Sadiq Khan MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Punishment and Reform is a collection of essays by members of the Justice Policy Working Group and other commissioned experts, brought together to inform the conclusions of the Labour Party’s policy review.
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 How to rebuild Labour's economic reputation
Fabian Ideas 629
ISBN 978 0 7163 0629 0
£9.95
Published Monday September 26th 2011
In this Fabian Ideas pamphlet, Stephen Beer argues that Labour’s economic credibility gap is wide but it can be closed.
The party entered the 2010 General Election campaign unable to explain its approach to the economy. It lost credibility on fiscal policy with financial markets and it lost credibility with the electorate because it did not answer the concerns of people faced with declining living standards and little decline in inequality.
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 Homes for Citizens: The politics of a fair housing policy
Fabian Ideas 628
ISBN 978 0 7163 0628 3
£9.95
In this Fabian Ideas pamphlet, Vidhya Alakeson, Richard Capie, Kate Green, Brian Johnson, Matt Leach, Nick Raynsford, Duncan Shrubsole, and Rebecca Tunstall focus on the crisis in British housing policy.
Housing can be a source of great anxiety and concern. With over a quarter of us losing sleep worrying about our housing costs, social housing in scarce supply, private rents in many areas continuing to rise, and the inevitability of an interest rate hike for owners, there is very little reason to think that this situation is set to get any better.
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 Separate and Unequal: How progressive integration can help deliver the good society
Nick Johnson
Fabian Ideas 627
ISBN 978 0 7163 0627 6
£6.95
Britain is separate because it is unequal, and it is unequal because it is separate.The gap between rich and poor, having exploded during the 1980s, is still growing, despite measures to address poverty in the 13 years of Labour Government. At the same time, we face growing fragmentation in our communities.
In this Fabian Ideas pamphlet, Nick Johnson defines integration as “equality for all, interaction between citizens, and democratic participation” – but, crucially, provides a detailed policy prescription for how to combine equality and solidarity, as well as explaining why it is important to do so. He challenges the left not to see integration as an adjunct to issues of equality but as part of the same broad progressive agenda, and also to move on from narrow identity politics.
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 Why the Right is Wrong: The progressive case for Britain's future
Gordon Brown
Fabian Ideas 626
ISBN 978 0 7163 0626 9
£6.95
As we head into one of the most closely fought elections in recent British history, Gordon Brown outlines in this Fabian Ideas pamphlet the intellectual and philosophical case for progressive politics. 'Why the Right is Wrong' argues we must harness the power that comes from people acting together to create a better and fairer society.
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 The Green Crunch: Why we need a new economics for Britain's environmental challenge
Sir John Harman
Fabian ideas 625
ISBN 9 780 7163 0625 2
£6.95
As Britain heads towards recession, many on the left fear that the politics of the environment will get lost amid the clamour for short-term economic solutions. But former Chairman of the Environment Agency Sir John Harman argues that now is the right time to fundamentally rethink our economics to meet the enviornmental challenges we face.
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 Fairness not Favours: How to reconnect with British Muslims
Sadiq Khan MP
Fabian ideas 624.
ISBN 978 0 7163 0624 5
£6.95
In ‘Fairness not Favours’, Sadiq Khan MP argues that an effective agenda to provide opportunity and tackle extremism across all communities must go beyond a narrow approach to security, and sets out new proposals for a progressive agenda on inequality and life chances, public engagement in foreign policy, an inclusive Britishness, and rethinking the role of faith in public life.
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 How to Defend Inheritance Tax
Rajiv Prabhakar, Karen Rowlingson and Stuart White
Fabian ideas 623. In association with the TUC
ISBN 978 0 7163 06238
£6.95
Inheritance tax is under attack, and not just from the political right. The critics of this tax have dominated the debate over recent years but, as the authors of this Fabian pamphlet argue, inheritance tax is one of the best tools we have for tackling inequality and kick starting Britain’s stalled social mobility.
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 Facing Out
How party politics must change to build a progressive society
Tim Horton, David Pinto-Duschinsky, and Jessica Studdert
Fabian ideas 622
ISBN 978 0 716306221
£6.95
Reconnecting people to politics is the issue of the moment. Alongside public scrutiny of our constitutional settlement, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, renewal must also involve thinking about how parties can contribute to strengthening democracy.
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Stronger Together
The 21st century case for Scotland and Britain
Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander
Fabian ideas 621
ISBN 978 0 716306214
£6.95
To mark this year's 300th anniversary of the Act of Union, creating the UK, Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander make the case for the contemporary relevance of the Union between Scotland and England and show why Scotland benefits both politically and economically.
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 Challenging the Citadel
Breaking the hospitals' grip on the NHS
Dr Howard Stoate and Bryan Jones
Fabian ideas 620
ISBN 0716306204
£6.95
The authors argue that the NHS is far too focused on the hospital as an institution. The challenges of the 21st century require an NHS focused on public health and health prevention, but this will not be possible if the dominance of the hospital is not challenged.
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 2025
What next for the Make Poverty History Generation?
Tom Hampson and others
Fabian ideas 619
ISBN 978 0 7163 06238
£6.95
Twenty years on from Live Aid and one year on from Gleneagles and Live 8, this collection of essays looks ahead to the global justice and sustainability challenges of the next 20 years, and the campaigns we will need to tackle them.
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 Raising Lazurus
The future of organised labour
David Coats
Fabian ideas 618
ISBN 0716306182
£6.95
Coats argues that the unions have a vital role to play in the labour market, but must reform to reverse their declining fortunes. While support remains high for collective action, unions must alter their rhetoric and widen their appeal to respond to the realities of the new economy.
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The Politics of Pension Reform
Richard Brooks and John Denham MP
Fabian Ideas 617
ISBN: 0716306174
£6.95
Brooks and John Denham argue that the government must get the politics right if it is to The politics of pension reform is just as important as the policy itself. In this pamphlet, Richard achieve what has eluded its predecessors and establish a pensions settlement which endures for future generations.
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 This influential interim report of the Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty draws on new Fabian/MORI deliberative research into public attitudes to set out the philosophical and political challenges involved in forging a compelling new public politics of inequality.
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 Must Politics Disappoint defends the place of politics in the 21st century. However, politics, it argues, has not yet adapted to the challenges of the mass democratic age.
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 In politics, economics and foreign policy Europe is the the essential tool for the progressive causes of our time. This, however, is threatened by the decline in British pro-Europeanism. The New Case for Europe argues for the relevance of Europe today.
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 The children's agenda is central to Labour's distinctive vision of government, and can help shift the centre ground of British politics by making a new popular case for state provision.
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 Leading thinkers, writers and politicians show what their heroes can contribute to contemporary debates in this collection published to mark the Fabian Society's 120th anniversary in 2004. With contributions from Robin Cook on George Bernard Shaw, Roy Hattersley on HG Wells, Raymond Plant on Tawney and Andrew Gamble on Bernard Crick.
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 The NHS has always depended on diversity, yet it has not dealt successfully with diversity itself. Britain's leading health and race policymakers set out an agenda for change.
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 The Making of Europe's Constitution offers an accessible guide to what is at stake in this important debate. This pamphlet explains how the draft Consititution was formed and debated - and questions whether the model of European integration which has driven much of the historic development of the European Union is the right one for the new, enlarged Europe.
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 Progressive Globalisation argues for the management of global capitalism under social democratic principles. It shows how the application of common rules and structural reforms, backed by democratically legitimate international institutions, can address the urgent problems of worsening global inequality,, environmental degredation and economic instability.
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 The relationship between citizens and their public services needs to be transformed so that local people have control over their public services. Invoking the spirit of mutualism and co-operation and applying it to public service provision, Blears calls for community control over key sections of public services, to move beyond the 'public sector' and to create a 'public realm'.
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 The Courage of Our Convictions argues that the Labour Party is most successful when it has a reforming passion. By reforming public services to deliver opportunity and security for all, with greater choice to meet the aspirations of the public, the left can shape a new future for the country.
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