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£25 billion of welfare cuts: thinking the unthinkable...or the unelectable?

6 January 2014

This morning George Osborne has promised to slash spending after the next election by £25 billion, with the bulk of the savings to come from the social security budget. The news comes the day after the Prime Minister promised to...

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130 years of the Fabian Society: Small footsteps to big changes

4 January 2014

4th January 2014 is the 130th birthday of the Fabian Society. Fabianism has never been a dogmatic creed, which is why the Society has been able to provide an intellectual home to so many famous political figures since it was founded...

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Happy Birthday! 130 years of the Fabian Society

4 January 2014

On January 4th 1884, one-hundred and thirty years ago in London, history was made. A Christian socialist group called the Fellowship of New Life was divided. Two competing primary objectives were tested, that of socialist spiritualism and another of economic...

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2014, Labour's year of...Tackling zero hours contracts

3 January 2014

Better jobs and more secure work are vital to tackling the cost of living crisis facing families across Britain. In our lives work gives us purpose and a sense of worth, and most importantly helps us pay the bills that...

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Zero hours contracts: a symptom, not the disease

3 January 2014

As my only direct experience of life on a zero hours contract is a brief period some 30 years ago as a manager of front-line staff employed almost exclusively (then and now) on such contracts, I hesitate to take issue...

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Class wars

3 January 2014

Mary Riddell speaks to Tristram Hunt and finds that the Labour party has not only a new shadow education secretary to flesh out the least developed area of Labour’s policy prospectus, but a fully signed-up outrider for Milibandism Is the Labour...

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