News & Insight

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

Fabian question time: Your top tweets on the Autumn Statement

6 December 2013

At the start of this week, the Fabians held a debate in partnership with Reform, debating 'What should the Chancellor do in this year's Autumn Statement?' In an online Fabian Question Time, we asked our Twitter followers the same question, and here are some of the best tweets:

Autumn Leaves: Osborne is just playing mood music

6 December 2013

The chancellor’s Autumn Statement was about mood music and positioning. He took full credit for the better economic news while making some headline grabbing announcements. More interesting was how he really sees the economy and battle lines for the election now...

Autumn statement: Full employment matters more than pension age

5 December 2013

This morning news greets us once again of demographic doom. The chancellor has announced that young people must work till their 70s to save us from national crisis. Hundreds of billions of pounds are at stake. We’ve heard it all before....

Room for manoeuvre: What will be in the Autumn statement?

4 December 2013

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and George Osborne is likely to receive some unusual good news which should promote Christmas goodwill in the Treasury. For the first time since it was established the Office for Budget Responsibility is expected...

We need to remake the case for social housing

3 December 2013

Thirty years ago a third of the population lived in council or housing association homes, now it is barely one in six. For the first time this year the English Housing Survey showed that there were more people living in...

Investment: Britain's next battleground

2 December 2013

Britain’s lack of investment is the critical battleground in deciding our economic future. We need a determined investment strategy anchored in private-public partnership. Notwithstanding the present recovery, Britain is seeing on-going erosion of its economic strengths, capabilities and competitiveness. One-time manufacturing and mercantile...

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