With the launch of our new Fabian website Next Left will be closing down soon... But don't fear! This new site includes our new online version of the magazine Fabian Review where we'll be pu...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/05/next-left-is-closing-down.html
ANDREW HARROP, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY, GIVES HIS RESPONSE TO THE CHANCELLOR'S BUDGET STATEMENT THIS AFTERNOON This is a budget of reheated Thatcherism. The Chancellor has ...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/03/budget-2012-conclusions.html
Give the Green Investment Bank real power. Now. When it comes to crises, this generation is spoilt. I’d like to talk about 3 in particular. The climate crisis, the public attitudes to climate...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/03/budget-2012-green-imperative.html
BY ANTHONY PAINTER Politics is the enemy of good fiscal and growth policy. This dynamic reveals itself in the tough times rather than the fair. The worst thing you can do if you want to suppo...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/03/budget-2012-case-for-investment.html
IVANA BARTOLETTI, EDITOR OF FABIANA, THE FABIAN WOMEN'S NETWORK MAGAZINE, WRITES ON WHAT WOMEN NEED FROM GEORGE OSBORNE'S BUDGET ON WEDNESDAY. The Government will present the Budget on Wedn...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/03/budget-2012-budget-for-women.html
THIS WEEK JACK STRAW PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. RICHARD HOWITT MEP, CHAIR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR PARTY (EPLP) AND SPEAKER AT THIS WEEKEND'S 'SOCIAL EUROPE: WORTH...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/part-time-parliament-loopy-idea.html
FABIAN SOCIETY GENERAL SECRETARY ANDREW HARROP WRITES FOR NEXT LEFT AHEAD OF THIS WEEKEND'S SOCIAL EUROPE: WORTH FIGHTING FOR? CONFERENCE With the European right rallying behind Nicolas Sarkoz...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/millande-hollaband-why-labour-must-get.html
FABIAN SOCIETY GENERAL SECRETARY WRITES FOR NEXT LEFT AS THE FABIANS LAUNCH A NEW PUBLICATION "THE ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVE, FOLLOWING ON FROM JANUARY'S NEW YEAR CONFERENCE 2012. YOU CAN READ THE F...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/meeting-growth-challenge.html
AHEAD OF OUR ‘SOCIAL EUROPE: WORTH FIGHTING FOR?’ CONFERENCE ON 25TH FEBRUARY THE FABIAN SOCIETY CONDUCTED A MEMBERSHIP SURVEY ON THE EU TO FIND OUT IF THE VIEWS OF OUR TRADITIONALLY PRO-EUR...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/social-europe-worth-fighting-for.html
AHEAD OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY'S SOCIAL EUROPE CONFERENCE ON 25TH FEBRUARY , IVANA BARTOLETTI, EDITOR OF FABIANA AND FORMER POLICY ADVISOR TO ROMANO PRODI GOVERNMENT IN ITALY, WRITES FOR NEXT LEFT O...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/why-we-need-social-europe.html
THIS IS A GUEST POST BY VERA BAIRD. VERA IS A MEMBER OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND CHAIR OF THE NEW LABOUR COMMISSION ON WOMEN'S SAFETY, COMMISSIONED BY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY YVET...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/checking-blind-spot-examining-violence.html
PROFESSOR PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY, PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL POLICY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT WRITES FOR NEXT LEFT ON THE LINK BETWEEN CUTS AND SOCIAL DISORDER. More cutbacks mean more riots? Many readers...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/more-cutbacks-mean-more-riots.html
DR KEVIN HICKSON IS SENIOR LECTURER IN POLITICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL AND CO-AUTHOR WITH ROY HATTERSLEY OF "IN SEARCH OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY". HERE HE RESPONDS TO DAVID MILIBAND'S ARTICLE I...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/in-defence-of-social-democracy.html
Natan Doron is a Senior Researcher at the Fabian Society In Winter 2012 I had the pleasure of sitting opposite Chris Huhne at a Fabian Society Environmental Policy Network dinner. He quoted Trot...
Fabian Society General Secretary ANDREW HARROP (@andrew_harrop) takes a look at Boris Johnson's council tax cut Boris Johnson’s announcement of a 1% cut in the City Hall component of Londoner...
The past week has seen Sir Fred Goodwin lose his knighthood and RBS chief executive Stephen Hester surrender his £973,000 bonus. Headline grabbing events by their very nature, questions are now ...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/02/baby-steps-towards-responsible.html
In his speech today in Strasbourg, David Cameron has argued Britain must use its chairmanship of the European Court of Human Rights to reform the court. A move likely to appease the eurosceptic ...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/european-court-of-human-rights-worth.html
As Andrew Neil noted on last night’s The Week, the word capitalism can no longer be used without an adjective prefixed to it. Responsible capitalism, fairer capitalism, better capitalism, moral...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/responsibility-rhetoric-how-cameron-is.html
Steve Akehurst (@SteveAkehurst) takes a look at Labour’s multi-coloured movements in a review of The Purple Book and Tangled Up In Blue Perhaps the most striking thing about the years followin...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/any-willing-provider-labours-anti-state.html
Thank you to everyone who attended year's Fabian Annual Conference Over 1,000 people came through the doors and over 100 volunteers and speakers helped make the day happen. The response was abs...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/economic-alternative-ed-balls-full.html
As part of a series of wide-ranging reforms of how the Labour Party operates, party General Secretary IAIN MCNICOL announced in November the creation of six new Executive Director posts to lead t...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/closing-date-looms-for-labour-executive.html
Stephen Beer is the author of The Credibility Deficit he will be taking part in this Fabian Annual Conference. Afternoon tickets are still available. Please head to www.fabians.org.uk for detail...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/winning-economic-argument-how-to-fight.html
By Ivana Bartoletti, Editor of Fabiana As women bear the brunt of the Tory-led Government’s reckless choices, the development of a fair and equal society for women is under threat. We are now...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/feminism-must-be-put-at-heart-of.html
The below is a guest blog by Christian James Smith , Corporate Social Responsibility manager at ASOS, the online fashion retailer. Christian is not a member or supporter of the Labour Party and t...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/dont-mock-good-capitalism-its-already.html
When Ed Miliband used his Labour conference speech in September to call for fundamental reform of capitalism, the media rolled out a predictable insta-critique: 'anti-business' and 'lurch to the ...
http://www.nextleft.org/2012/01/why-politicians-are-fighting-over-fair.html