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Capital Ideas: Social Responsibility and the Marketplace

11 November 2014

If there is a core to the Miliband project, it is surely the vision of a more responsible, productive and equitable form of capitalism. The limits of New Labour’s approach – to abandon the search for an alternative political economy and...

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The future of government: Long-termism, egalitarianism and collectivism

10 November 2014

Municipal socialism, 1945 dirigisme, Croslandite social democracy and New Labour: each generation of Fabians has had their own statecraft. Now, as the dust slowly settles on Labour’s last spell in office, the contours of yet another theory of government are...

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The future of government: Long-termism, egalitarianism and collectivism

10 November 2014

Municipal socialism, 1945 dirigisme, Croslandite social democracy and New Labour: each generation of Fabians has had their own statecraft. Now, as the dust slowly settles on Labour’s last spell in office, the contours of yet another theory of government are...

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Interview

National interest

7 November 2014

For the first time this year, Jim Murphy had a slot at the Edinburgh Festival, sharing a fringe platform with a comedian friend. His subject was the 100 venue tour in which he set up his Irn Bru crates on...

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Interview

A design for life: A new era of grassroots politics

6 November 2014

Walk down an average British street and you are more likely to meet a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the Caravan Club than a member of a political party. Both of these apparently esoteric...

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Interview

Archives full of life: Adventures in the LSE's Fabian collection

5 November 2014

Looking back in 1968 over his long political life, the great Fabian Leonard Woolf wrote: "I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing. The world today and the history of the human anthill during the last fifty-seven years would be...

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