News & Insight

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

We need to change the narrative on inequality

1 December 2014

Earlier this year, Oxfam research found that the five richest families in the UK are wealthier than the poorest 20 per cent of the population combined. That means that just a handful of families hold more wealth than 12.5 million...

Agents of change: To end workplace exploitation, Labour needs boots on the ground

25 November 2014

Quick on the heels of his ‘fight back’ speech at Senate House, which was peppered with references to inequality, low pay, and zero-hours contracts, on Monday Ed Miliband returned to the subject of insecurity, exploitation and unfairness at work by...

Why Miliband should still just make it to Number 10

24 November 2014

The Rochester & Strood by-election may not prove to have been especially damaging to Labour, despite the hoo-ha over Emily Thornberry's tweet. The party's disappointing but not humiliating third place was partly due to two different streams of defectors from...

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Klass war? Labour has more work to do in selling its mansion tax

21 November 2014

Myleene Klass’s anti-mansion tax outburst on The Agenda is evidence that Labour still has a long way to go in persuading the middle classes of its credibility on tax reform. For some, Klass’s criticism of the mansion tax made her an ‘anti-tax...

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Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty

19 November 2014

The rise of the ‘food bank’ has grabbed the headlines in recent months, as more and more people are struggling to put food on the table in the UK. Yet recent research has shown that emergency food use is just...

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