News & Insight

To whom it may concern

12 October 2016

Continuing our Fabian Review series on the refugee crisis, year 11 student Boogie Thompson shares her experience of visiting the Calais jungle People have been asking me how Calais was. I stutter and say it was eye-opening or interesting. But this is...

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England in 2030

11 October 2016

‘It’s tough to make predictions’, said the great baseball sage, Yogi Berra, ‘especially about the future’. But in politics there are great prizes for a political party with a sense of how the world is changing, the new risks and...

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Red lines

10 October 2016

Red lines are in vogue. It’s hard to find a politician who doesn’t want to draw one somewhere, and with Brexit negotiations just around the corner, migration is a current favourite. But the problem with red lines is that you must...

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Progressive patriotism: John Denham's speech to Scottish Fabians conference

8 October 2016

The voters of the UK have taken, by a small but decisive margin, the biggest foreign and domestic policy decision of the past 40 years. In the process it has revealed a society deeply divided: socially, economically and politically, and it...

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We need a revolution

7 October 2016

To mark the launch of the Fabian Health network, Luciana Berger outlines five key areas which could revolutionise mental health care  When it comes to mental health, there has undoubtedly been progress over the last few years. Not least, it has...

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What kind of power do we want?

6 October 2016

What does being ‘in power' mean? Labour is divided as never before. On the left, Corbyn and his followers are seeking to build a new kind of mass movement for the 21st century. On the right, their opponents insist that such...

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