‘The UK Housing Crisis: How should Labour respond’ – Live stream of event The Fabian Economic and Finance Policy Group hosted an online event, The UK Housing Crisis: How Should Labour Respond?, on Thursday 1 July 2021. The recording is available here. The details are as follows: – The UK…

On Monday October 12th 2020, the Fabian Society Economy & Finance Group hosted an online discussion entitled ‘A British Basic Income: Has the time come?’ Hosted by Steve Macey, Author of ‘A British Basic Income: Design and Implementation’, the event comprised the following participants: Alfie Stirling, Director of Research and Chief Economist, New Economics Foundation Stewart Lansley, Economist and Financial Journalist, Author of ‘A Universal Basic Income: An Idea whose time has come’.

When you drive a vehicle, you are obliged to hold car insurance. On the off chance you crash and cause injury to others and their property, this ensures no one else has to pay for the resulting damages. …

Why not use competition regulation to protect workers from abusive and exploitative firms? Sometimes workers don’t have much choice about where they earn their living. Think of towns where the major employer is a particular factory or warehouse business – perhaps even the main (the only?) pub or restaurant in…

This is the launch event of the Fabian Society Economy and Finance Policy Group The Fabian Society Economy and Finance Policy Group has been set up by a group of finance professionals, academics and economists to look at the future of UK economic policy. With fellow Fabians Keir Starmer MP…

The UK pension system is renowned for being the most complex in the world. Decades of tampering and incremental reform have created a bewildering array of regulations, structures and products. …

We need to talk about meritocracy and what steps we must take to get there. The Oxford Dictionary of Politics defines ‘meritocracy’ as “an elite selected on the basis of ability rather than social background”. But how do we define ability and who should get paid more? Is the market…

The Climate Emergency is at last starting to get the kind of media coverage which it requires to keep it at the top of the priority list for people and politicians. This is thanks to high profile protests and actions by groups like XR and Greenpeace alongside more responsible reporting…

The new government will inherit an unenviable situation, facing three challenges: · Unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality for a progressive government · Limited fiscal space due to a debt-GDP ratio of 85%, and a deficit of 1.1% of GDP · Wariness amongst foreign investors, upon which economic success depends. …