Fabian Society

Type: Organization
Name: Fabian Society
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Wide-ranging Labour critique of workplace pensions targets contract, transparency and regulators

InIn a paper for the Fabian Society, Labour pensions shadow Gregg McClymont MP and his senior parliamentary assistant Andy Tarrant argue contract-based pension schemes contain an inherent conflict of interest between delivering for savers and meeting ... [Published Money Marketing Online - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

David Cameron should listen to his voters

Yesterday’s blog showed how out of touch those Tories obsessed with withdrawal from the European Union are compared with the majority of British voters. Today I came across this piece on Guardian Comment is Free . Talking about support for the EU ... [Published THE HONEYBALL BUZZ - May 15 2013]
First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Labour: UK regulator system ‘not fit for purpose’

Labour has stated that the current UK pension regulatory system is “not fit for purpose” and the implementation of a single pensions regulator is one of the options that it is exploring in its policy review to improve the current system.Shadow pensions ... [Published Pensions Age - May 13 2013]
First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Labour 'must get match fit quickly'

He compared Labour to a walker he met in the Himalayas who had turned up without doing any training.Labour "has got to get match fit, it has got to prepare", he said.He has produced research which suggests voters think Labour is "nice" but Ed Miliband ... [Published BBC - May 13 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Joanna Lumley is right to use her bus pass she's earnt it and so should EVERY pensioner

YESTERDAY should have been a day of triumph for Iain Duncan Smith. After a long battle with the Left, the bishops and even with patrician Tories in the House of Lords, finally his plans for Universal Credit came into effect – at least in a small pilot ... [Published Daily Express - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Ministers 'should increase pensioner taxes'

'We're all in this together': The Fabian Society says David Cameron's mantra has to include pensioners tooThe downturn in the economy has prompted David Cameron to repeatedly say that "we're all in this together".Now an influential think-tank has said ... [Published Investor Portfolio Service - Apr 24 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 2 reports

Fabian Society comments will cause long-term damage to savings culture, says Saga

"The comments from the Fabian Society are simply ludicrous." says Tim Pethick, Managing Director of Saga Magazine."You don't create more houses by making older people homeless.""Ensuring that younger people can get on the property ladder is about supply ... [Published Saga - Apr 23 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Plundering plan

The latest wheeze to emerge from the left-wing Fabian Society is an absolute corker and a stark warning of how the socialist mind works. They claim that "better off" pensioners should be stripped of taxpayer-sourced benefits, and that they be coerced ... [Published The Scotsman - Apr 23 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Increase Taxation for Working Pensioners? We should do the opposite!

How interesting that our friend (and former colleague in Age UK) Andrew Harrop, now with the Fabian Society, should be speaking out in favour of a tax hike for older people.Seemingly the Fabian Society’s research comes up with the revealing fact that ... [Published TAEN - Apr 23 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 17 reports

Fabian Society slammed for targeting OAPs for cuts pain

Pensioners hit back today at "divisive" Fabian Society claims that older people were hogging Britain's housing and receive too many benefits. The Labour Party-affiliated Fabian Society think tank said that high levels of home ownership among pensioners ... [Published Morning Star Online - Apr 22 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Fabian Society and Policy Exchange clash over elderly accommodation question

The think tanks Policy Exchange and the Fabian Society have clashed over the best way to house Britain's ageing population.Though in agreement that the concentration of home ownership amongst older people risks stoking "inter-generational unfairness", ... [Published 24dash.com - Apr 22 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 3 reports

UK & World News: Morning news headlines for April 22, 2013

Cameron tribute to Lawrence familyTHE murder of Stephen Lawrence sparked "monumental change" in British society, Prime Minister David Cameron said ahead of a memorial service today to mark the 20th anniversary of the teenager’s death.Stephen, 18, was ... [Published Liverpool Daily Post - Apr 22 2013]

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...He senses "a huge amount of resilience out there", and professes optimism that families and communities will step up. He says: "They will rally round in ways we haven't seen since the miners strike."
Labour "has got to get match fit, it has got to prepare" , he said
...The CPI's nearly 100 pamphlets were distributed to approximately 75 million people. "It was a fight for the minds of men, for the “conquest of their convictions,” and the battle line ran through every home in every country" Creel later recalled
Labour's shadow care minister Liz Kendall said the bill's measures "won’t go anywhere near far enough in tackling the crisis in care" , in a speech yesterday to the Fabian Society...

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How Life Became Regulated, Regimented, and Over... [Published LewRockwell.com - May 18 2013]
Wide-ranging Labour critique of workplace pensi... [Published Money Marketing Online - May 15 2013]
David Cameron should listen to his voters [Published THE HONEYBALL BUZZ - May 15 2013]
Give young people a voice in the EU referendum ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 15 2013]
Huw Lewis: the Welsh poverty minister [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Labour: UK regulator system ‘not fit for purpose’ [Published Pensions Age - May 13 2013]
Labour: Workplace pensions must prioritise save... [Published PoliticsHome - May 13 2013]
Labour 'must get match fit quickly' [Published BBC - May 13 2013]
NBR Politics Daily - May 13 [Published National Business Review - May 13 2013]
Benghazi: Progressives Rewrite History in Real ... [Published Hawaiian Reporter - May 11 2013]
One Nation ambition for all [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - May 10 2013]
Benghazi: Progressives Rewrite History in Real ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 10 2013]
Economic justice requires more independence, no... [Published Open Democracy - May 10 2013]
Economic justice requires more independence, no... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - May 10 2013]
Dunbartonshire News: Campaigning Alexandria pen... [Published Lennox Herald - May 10 2013]
Salvato: Progressives Rewrite Benghazi History ... [Published GOPUSA - May 10 2013]
Queen's Speech announces adult social care over... [Published Communitycare.co.uk - May 08 2013]
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams hints at M... [Published Wales Online - May 07 2013]
Liverpool rally marks 30 years since election o... [Published Socialist Party - May 01 2013]
Downsize dilemma [Published Algarve Daily News - Apr 30 2013]
Joanna Lumley is right to use her bus pass she'... [Published Daily Express - Apr 30 2013]
The Africans who could be kings in Britain! [Published New African - Apr 30 2013]
Joanna Lumley uses her bus pass and so should e... [Published Daily Express - Apr 30 2013]
LETTERS: New fees won't help city [Published Glasgow Evening Times - Apr 29 2013]
Target OAPs and lose votes, PM warned [Published Morning Star Online - Apr 29 2013]
Good Guy or Bad? [Published LewRockwell.com - Apr 27 2013]
Home truths on pensioners and property [Published Yorkshire Post - Apr 27 2013]
SHARING OUT THE CAKE [Published Caledonian Mercury - Apr 26 2013]
Peter Kellner can't keep quiet [Published Velvet Glove, Iron Fist - Apr 25 2013]
What’s On 25-04-13 [Published Lancashire Evening Post - Apr 25 2013]
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David Cameron should listen to his voters [Published THE HONEYBALL BUZZ - May 15 2013]
Yesterday’s blog showed how out of touch those Tories obsessed with withdrawal from the European Union are compared with the majority of British voters. Today I came across this piece on Guardian Comment is Free . Talking about support for the EU ...
Benghazi: Progressives Rewrite History in Real ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 10 2013]
If there was ever a moment in time when the American people could collectively glean knowledge from a “teachable moment,” the Obama Administration’s handling of the al Qaeda-related attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya is surely one.  ...
Peter Kellner can't keep quiet [Published Velvet Glove, Iron Fist - Apr 25 2013]
For reasons that now escape me, I went to a Fabian Society event at the 2009 Labour Party conference (it was in Brighton, where I was then living—I can think of no other excuse). It was there that I picked up a free copy of Fabian Review which ...
John Ivison: Stephen Harper looking to halt cau... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 04 2013]
Stephen Harper has engaged in a charm offensive with his restless caucus to help avert the most serious internal challenge to his authority since coming to power – the charge that he is muzzling his MPs by restricting what motions they bring forward ...
Clinging to nanny [Published Blighty - The Economist - Mar 13 2013]
“THERE was a terrible crash, and the ceiling caved in,” narrates an old man, his voice trembling with emotion, as he tells of a horrific mining accident in which 24 colleagues were killed. Ken Loach, the director, promptly cuts to a clip of aristocrats ...
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Ed Miliband's speech to The Fabian Society [Published The Labour Party (UK) - YouTube Channel - Jan 14 2013]
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