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The Tories' near-million pound hire of Jim Messina is a brilliant psy-op against Labour. We love Obama, we're proud of our ground game, we dismiss the Tories. Why? Because we feel that we are the People's Party, we're the Movement that…
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…
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…
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour Party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying this Lent considerably overstates the intellectual weight of Fabianism in contemporary Labour debates (perhaps I should be…
Judging by the broad, if sometimes shaky, support Ed Miliband enjoys from the Labour left, there is a general acceptance now that the Party has moved some clicks along the political spectrum towards socialism. In fact, Labour is seized by…
In the new edition of the Fabian Review magazine, I make the case for Labour to ignore the temptation to adopt Conservative party spending plans at the next election. It’s a subject that regularly comes up at Labour party meetings and…
There's an interesting splash in the Indy this morning that claims the Shadow Cabinet are coaelscing around plans to spend more than George Osborne is planning to - or to put it another way, to reject Tory spending plans and the limitations…
Tory policies - on social security, on tax, on public service spending cuts, on the NHS, on education, on housing, on immigration, on virtually any aspect of domestic social policy you care to think of – are explicitly divisive. This is…
In the late 1980s, I took part in Neil Kinnock’s policy review – ‘Meet the Challenge, Make the Change’. I wish we weren’t in opposition again, but I’m glad we have the opportunity for another reassessment of our policy platform. However…
This morning in front of a large and expectant Fabian audience (at their biggest conference yet), Ed Miliband gave the first speech of what will be a defining year for the Labour leader. Lets cut to the chase. It could have been more…
It is great to be here at the Fabians. Today I want to talk to you about the idea of One Nation. The idea of a country which we rebuild together, where everyone plays their part. It is not an idea rooted in Fabian pamphlets. Though I bow to…
17.52: Building a million new homes wins the race at a canter as the chosen Fabian pledge. Incidentally, NPF Chair Angela Eagle voted for it. 17.45: Over the last hour the conference has been debating a number of potential Labour pledges…
