Fabian Review

The Fabian Review is our flagship quarterly magazine, featuring sharp political writing and analysis from Labour politicians, established experts and up-and-coming writers.

Summer 2013

Fabian Review

The summer Fabian Review features new research on growing inequality and highlights why Labour needs to rediscover its egalitarian core. With Howard Reed on why the coalition's benefit reforms are a speeded-up version of Thatcherism; Kate Bell on the arguments for investing in childhood; Andrew Simms asks 'do we want to grow forever?' and Mary Riddell speaks to Arnie Graf, the influential adviser to Ed Miliband on Labour's community-organising revolution.

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Spring 2013

Fabian Review

Patrick Diamond on what the left can do in an era of less growth, less public spending and lower living standards; Sarah Mulley on Labour's immigration challenge; Stuart White and Martin O'Neill on the 'New Labour that wasn't' and the lessons for 'one nation' Labour today.

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Winter 2012

Fabian Review

The winter Fabian Review explains how the environment could be a crucial factor in deciding the next election:
Natan Doron analyses new polling from YouGov which shows strong support for making the shift to a low-carbon economy among swing voters. Shadow treasury minister Cathy Jamieson, Keith Allott from WWF and Frances O'Grady, TUC general secretary respond.
Michael Jacobs says that the environmental crisis is now a crisis of capitalism, and sets out the terms for a green social democracy in a Fabian essay.

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Autumn 2012

Fabian Review

The Fabian Review has been completely redesigned. The first issue of the new look is our annual conference special and inside the magazine:

Katie Ghose, Peter Kellner, Lisa Nandy and Ed Wallis discuss our new YouGov polling on how to bring politics back down to earth (click here to download full polling data)
Mary Riddell interviews Labour's new policy chief Jon Cruddas
Victoria Barr says the government should create a rainy day fund to meet the costs of a future financial crisis
Geoff Mulgan writes that innovation-led growth should be made a much higher political priority

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Summer 2012

Fabian Review

In the summer edition of the Fabian Review we looked in detail at Labour's Next State including: Andrew Harrop explores new Fabian Society research on public attitudes towards the state; Yvonne Roberts, Jon Wilson, Alison McGovern, Natan Doron, Anna Coote and Ruth Lister on Labour's statecraft.

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Spring 2012

Fabian Review

This edition of the Fabian Review investigates possible ways to a winning coalition for the left and what they mean for Labour politics.
Introducing a major new Fabian Society research project on Labour's next majority, Marcus Roberts, Neal Lawson, Tessa Jowell and Paul Hunter outline the ways Labour can win a majority.

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Winter 2011

Fabian Review

The economy's broken - with new polling showing public appetite for a fairer, more sustainable capitalism, the Fabian Review explores how we might fix it.

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Autumn 2011

Fabian Review

As Ed Miliband celebrates his first year as Labour leader, the Fabian Review Conference Special asks what he needs to do across the next 12 months to make Labour the party offering the winning formula in 2015.

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Summer 2011

Fabian Review

As the Labour Party begins to regroup after a painful election defeat, the Fabian Review looks at what went wrong, what went right, and how to move on.

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Spring 2011

Fabian Review

The spring Fabian Review looks at why things are getting worse for women under this government and sets out some new campaigns for gender equality

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Winter 2010

Fabian Review

The Fabian Review's New Year Conference special examines some of the big questions Labour needs to ask itself during this process, on its route back to power.

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