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Positive participation
3 April 2017
Asset based approaches use the knowledge, skills and experience of individuals and communities to effect beneficial change by enabling them to regain control over their own future. Although asset based approaches cannot in themselves address the enormous power imbalance inherent in society,...
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Health localism: what the English public thinks
31 March 2017
Greater Manchester's experiment in NHS devolution turns one today, but do poeple in the rest of England want to follow? Andrew Harrop, Tobias Phibbs and Tara Paterson outline the findings of a national opinion poll for the Fabian Society NHS devolution...
Continue Reading Devolution / HealthTaking the politics out of infrastructure - good luck with that
30 March 2017
One of the many dangers of Brexit is that it diverts attention from other issues. Two issues currently needing attention are climate change and the future of UK infrastructure. These two issues are best considered together, something which doesn’t often...
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Article 50 isn't the end of the debate
29 March 2017
On triggering article 50 the prime minister’s biggest hurdle is an expectant nation. Evidence consistently shows that people expect Brexit to deliver more trade, less migration and cessation of any financial relationship with the EU. And with reason: this is...
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A German perspective on Brexit
28 March 2017
Despite all the problems and setbacks European integration has suffered in the past, the 'ever closer Union' always felt quite certain to me. However, even before British voters went to the ballot boxes in June last year, the calls for...
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Labour in rural England and Wales
27 March 2017
The Fabian Society is carrying out a research project into Labour's discomfort in rural England and Wales. For Labour to win a majority in a general election it must make significant gains in rural and semi-rural constituencies yet it is out...
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