News & Insight

The latest news, analysis and opinion from the Fabian Society including highlights from the Fabian Review and web-exclusive commentary and insight.

The Paradise Papers and the case for wealth taxes

14 November 2017

For me, the most interesting part of the Paradise Papers offshore leak was an offhand comment about a tax payment made seventy years ago. The leak revealed that the Grosvenor estate in central London, owned by the Duke of Westminster’s family...

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Winning the country

14 November 2017

New Labour was famous for its grasp of the importance of the message. Its communications strategy – or spin, depending on your perspective – is acknowledged to have played a crucial role in securing three consecutive election victories. More recently,...

Transforming mental health in Greater Manchester

8 November 2017

To mark the launch of the Fabian Health Network’s mental health awareness project, Andy Burnham outlines his plans to improve service provision in Greater Manchester As mayor of Greater Manchester I pledged to prioritise mental health and ensure it is treated...

Continue Reading Devolution / Health

Family and Kinship in East London revisited

7 November 2017

As well as being the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge Report, 2017 also marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Family and Kinship in East London, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s classic account of working-class community in post-war Bethnal...

Continue Reading History / Housing

Book review

Book review: How to stop Brexit

6 November 2017

How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again) by Nick Clegg, Bodley Head, £8.99 Even at the height of Cleggmania, I never understood the appeal of the then Liberal Democrat leader. Nick Clegg performed very strongly during the prime ministerial...

What vacuum?

2 November 2017

Are the more than half a million members of the Labour party really ‘intellectually incoherent’? I joined the Labour party in 1958 when Hugh Gaitskell was the leader. Two years later I joined the Fabian Society. Sometime during the Blair...

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