News & Insight

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

In defence of truth and belief

6 July 2013

It is a troubling conclusion that the environmental movement has been unable to capitalise on overwhelming evidence in favour of dramatic co2 emissions reductions. In the same way that the financial crisis did not automatically improve the fortunes of the...

Green Labour

6 July 2013

The environment and citizenship programme is one that tries to grapple with what I think can be summed up by two central questions: Firstly, how can we keep the environment on the agenda at a time of economic insecurity and uncertainty? And...

Labour’s luminaries

5 July 2013

In the summer of 1888, there was uproar on the streets of the East End. 1,400 matchmakers, mostly women and young girls, had walked out of Bryant & May’s factory in Bow and were picketing its gates. This horrified polite society. Victorian...

Kindness in the NHS

5 July 2013

Being the secretary of state for health must be both a wonderful and a frustrating job. You have the glorious NHS to look after. Every day you are witness to the audacious claim that we are good enough to provide,...

Together

3 July 2013

I will never forget the dispiriting journey of my grandmother through England’s health and care system and the battles my mum fought to get her basic levels of care. Like generations of pensioners, my gran lost her life savings to...

Spending Wisely

1 July 2013

Today the Fabian Society publishes the first report of our Commission on Future Spending Choices, a year-long inquiry into the spending choices which will face whatever government comes to power in 2015. We set up the commission at a time...

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