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Next Left: December 2011

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Wednesday, 21 December 2011. Balls: “Labour’s opportunity starts now”. Rightly or wrongly, there is public scepticism about Labour's willingness to take tough decisions on public spending. A big part of my task is to turn that round and win that argument.". In an interview in today’s Independent. Ed Balls argues that Labour have carefully bided their time before attempting to regain the public’s trust on the management of the economy. With Ed Balls set to make the keynote speech at the Fabian's New Year ...

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Next Left: January 2012

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012. European Court of Human Rights: Worth fighting for? 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 wing of his party, Cameron’s call is one which paints the ECHR as overly interventionist and an unwelcome party in national legal proceedings. But is this really the case? Shows that in reality, only 3% of cases the court considers reg...

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Next Left: May 2012

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Monday, 14 May 2012. Next Left is closing down. With the launch of our new Fabian website. Next Left will be closing down soon. This new site includes our new online version of the magazine Fabian Review. Where we'll be publishing political news, policy analysis, book reviews and Fabian history as well as featuring contributions from Fabian Society members. Check out our new site at www.fabians.org.uk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to Next Left - a Fabian Society blog. Next Left is closing down.

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Next Left: Budget 2012: The case for investment

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012. Budget 2012: The case for investment. 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 support both short and medium growth is eliminate expenditures on investment. And yet, when you have to reduce a deficit that is exactly what gets cut first. Would make sense to enable this investment to be channelled into our infrastructure needs as soon as possible. An invest t...

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Next Left: March 2012

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Wednesday, 21 March 2012. Budget 2012: The conclusions. 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 unveiled a £5,000 annual Easter present for anyone earning a quarter of a million pounds, while keeping quiet about his real-terms cuts to tax credits and the minimum wage. Britain is becoming a more unequal country under Mr. Osborne. George Osborne’s stealt...

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Next Left: Budget 2012: The conclusions...

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Wednesday, 21 March 2012. Budget 2012: The conclusions. 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 unveiled a £5,000 annual Easter present for anyone earning a quarter of a million pounds, while keeping quiet about his real-terms cuts to tax credits and the minimum wage. Britain is becoming a more unequal country under Mr. Osborne. George Osborne’s stealt...

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Next Left: February 2012

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Friday, 24 February 2012. Part-time Parliament a loopy idea. 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 Fighting For. Conference gives his response. The politicians of that era I have talked to, speak with affection about the bars and nightspots of Strasbourg, but not of any political achievements in going there. And that was before the European Parliam...

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Next Left: August 2011

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Tuesday, 23 August 2011. Use housing policy positively, not as a punishment. Guest post by Angelo Sommariva, Public Affairs and Policy Manager at the housing association Moat. How do we look ahead to what we want in future, rather than looking over our shoulder to what we don’t like now? The sensible starting point might be to decide on some basic concepts that we want to see incorporated into a reformed system. In the Fabian book Homes for Citizens. An essay by Brian Johnson, Chief Executive of Moat.

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Next Left: September 2011

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Sunday, 25 September 2011. No apologies on economy says Cooper. Labour shouldn’t apologise for its record and needs to fight back against Tory myth-making about the economy, said Yvette Cooper at the Fabian Question time event at Labour conference. 8220;We shouldn’t concede argument on the economy. It goes against the principles of the Labour Party to concede on things that are wrong. You don’t get credibility by saying things that are wrong and will be proved to be wrong.”. Fabian Society General Secret...

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Next Left: Next Left is closing down...

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Monday, 14 May 2012. Next Left is closing down. With the launch of our new Fabian website. Next Left will be closing down soon. This new site includes our new online version of the magazine Fabian Review. Where we'll be publishing political news, policy analysis, book reviews and Fabian history as well as featuring contributions from Fabian Society members. Check out our new site at www.fabians.org.uk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Next Left - a Fabian Society blog. The World After Bush.