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By Tom Bage / @tombage Tony Benn once said of the Labour Party: "We are not just here to manage capitalism, but to change society and define its finer values." As the Young Fabians gear up to celebrate their 50th year, with the most…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Will Straw has a piece in the latest edition of the Fabian Review, published today, which assesses the trends and demographics of Labour's postwar support base - and looks at where the party should go next to…
By Richard Lane / @politicana With just months until a General Election and the opinion polls tightening, there is still everything to play for. That is why the Fabian Society wants you to pitch your one idea to beat the Right in 2010 for…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the day the Fabian Society launches its Solidarity Society report - two years in the making - one of its authors, Tim Horton, has written to David Cameron challenging him to speak to the Fabians about…
By Adrian Prandle / @youngfabians Following the Young Fabian AGM at the weekend, and the election of a new Executive Committee, the time is right to officially launch the Young Fabian blog. Please join us for a launch seminar in the House…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Congratulations to Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society, who has produced a survey revealing that all ten of the Top 10 Tory bloggers are climate change sceptics. Sunder says: "None of the top ten Conservative…
By Rachel Reeves This week the Young Fabians, as part of their PPC Week, launch an exciting debate on the future of progressive politics. Bringing together a group of young Labour Parliamentary Candidates - including Emma Reynolds in…
By Rachel Reeves This week the Young Fabians, as part of their PPC Week, launch an exciting debate on the future of progressive politics. Bringing together a group of young Labour Parliamentary Candidates - including Emma Reynolds in…
By Rowenna Davis Do the Brits hate benefits? Well not really, but they do kind of hate the people on them. This was the main finding behind a key Fabian report presented at party conference last night. Most taxpayers think that people on…
By Kate Groucutt and David Chaplin At the next general election Labour will need to re-build its broad coalition of support, reconnecting with groups that have drifted away from the centre-left in recent years. Young people form a key part…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 At the Fabian fringe event 'Next Labour', both James Purnell and Jon Cruddas ruled themselves out of standing for the Labour leadership in the future. Both prefer, they said, developing the ideas that will…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Cleaning up political funding is back on the political agenda. Charles Clarke called on the government to "legislate in the final session of this Parliament to reform the system of political Party funding along…
