Fabian Society Articles

Labour must learn again how to win over those who voted Tory If you seek a culprit for Labour’s defeat in 2015, look no further than David Marquand, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Marquand did not mean to cause Labour’s defeat. I suspect he regrets it, and...

1999 is in the headlines today, with news that the stock market has finally surpassed its dot-com peak. But a new Fabian Society report looks back to another key moment in 1999: Tony Blair’s historic pledge to end child poverty within 20 years. Action on child poverty...

This week’s report by the Local Government Innovation Taskforce, People-Powered Public Services, marks another important stage in Labour’s policy review. The report sets out in detail how a future Labour administration should go about the task of decentralising...

The Fourth Revolution, a new 'zeitgeist' book by the editor-in-chief and management wditor of the Economist, is a brilliant book both in conception and execution. While the critic can find nits at which to pick (the observation that Ed Miliband ‘owes his position to...