Fabian Society Articles

In terms of expectation management there was a clear winner in the 2016 local elections: the Labour party. Faced with predictions of 150 losses in council seats, to come out with fewer than 20 encouraged many of us to breathe a sigh of relief that things could have...

The right does not do days like Fabian New Year conference, a Tory acquaintance once remarked to me. A thousand Conservatives just would not give up a Saturday for seven hours of policy debate. Labour activists are made of sterner stuff, it seems, as they prepare to...

In the run-up to Christmas, with schools breaking up shortly for a fortnight, the shame of ‘holiday hunger’ and child hunger in the United Kingdom becomes even more acute and poignant. Foodbanks and food projects around the country are planning for additional need at...

We named the independent inquiry we launched today the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty in order to broaden the debate on the connection between these two issues in the United Kingom. People on low incomes in the UK face a new struggle to acquire sufficient...