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By Dan McCurry Sometimes you get the impression that the Parliamentary Labour Party is composed entirely of public sector types. Sometimes you get the impression that these public sector types never speak to anyone else except other public…
By Adrian Prandle Stronger together. Big tent. Opportunity for all. Three phrases we've all heard within the broad spectrum of the lLabour movement. If we are to take one thing from Barack Obama's presidential campaign, particularly noting…
By Sunder Katwala Among the many galling features about this Easter weekend's tawdry Westminster village eruption which has led to the resignation of Downing Street adviser Damian McBride is not just that the behaviour involved has brought…
By Tom Miller We have a lot of people who frequent our site, continuously asking us why we have no criticism of the Government, figures within the Labour Party, or figures within the wider labour movement. The truth is that we tend to…
By Alastair Campbell Lots of memories stirred last night as I sat on a panel to help launch the Fabian Society's latest book, The Change We Need, on lessons Britain can learn from Barack Obama's victory. Memories because the venue was…
By Will Straw The Change We Need: What Britain Can Learn from Obama's Victory, published today by the Fabian Society, is a book about culture, not technology. I moved to the United States two years ago - first to study in New York and then…
By Roy Hattersley On Saturday, I gave a speech on poverty to the Fabians' Centenary Conference. In it, I defined 'the poor' as families living on sixty per cent, or less, of the national average income. I did not choose that definition…
By Tom Miller Last night I went to a really interesting event at the NASUWT headquarters, run by trade union think tank, Unions21. The meeting concentrated on how unions could use the internet to get their message out and organise using new…
By Sunder Katwala Labour's greatest historic achievement is the post-war welfare state. The welfare settlement advocated by the Beveridge Report of 1942 and put in place by the post-war Attlee government was not perfect, but it remains the…
By Will Straw The Labour Party announced last week that it was adopting one of the most successful techniques used by the Obama campaign in the American election. Throughout both the primary and general election, Obama supporters anywhere…
UPDATE FROM THE FABIAN CONFERENCE By Tom Miller The final session of the Fabian New Year Conference took the innovative and enjoyable (if slightly confusing) form of a Dragon's Den style judging panel. Speakers were invited to propose a…
UPDATE FROM THE FABIAN CONFERENCE By Tom Miller Johann Hari makes the point that Sharia courts advocate deeply unequal treatment for women. He believes it's a myth that women voluntarily submit to the authority of these courts and that…
