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Brexit becomes reality

27 January 2017

Our general secretary, Andrew Harrop writes a letter to our European friends For pro-Europeans in Britain the last six months have been devastating. For a while, after the 23 June referendum, there was a feeling of disbelief and defiance. Tens of...

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United front

27 January 2017

Devolution offers the best chance we have to integrate health and social care for those with dementia, writes Hazel Blears For the first time dementia has overtaken cancer and heart disease as the greatest single cause of death in the UK....

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Fire without smoke

26 January 2017

The challenge of cyber warfare to policy makers At the Fabian Society New Year conference the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, was asked hypothetically whether NATO should support Estonia if Russian troops crossed the border. Thornberry responded in a surprising way...

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Can Labour reach beyond the metropolitan elite?

25 January 2017

The result of the 2015 general election saw Labour retreat to the cities. We racked up our worst performance in terms of share of the vote. We lost seats, or failed to gain our targets, in towns, in suburbs, in...

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Support system

24 January 2017

The left needs to stop lecturing British Muslim women, writes Shaista Aziz Post-Brexit, hate crime has soared. But while the political discourse around austerity, immigration and the refugee crisis has created an environment where growing numbers of people seem to feel...

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Socialism for a rainy day

20 January 2017

Self-taxation in the age of Brexit In the wake of the election of Donald Trump in November, American liberal advocacy groups and charities saw a surge in donations. Planned Parenthood, which was vilified by all the candidates for the Republican nomination,...

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