This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society considers how a National Occupational Health Service could work with others in keeping people well at work. Since Labour was last in power, the number of working-age people reporting a disabling condition has increased by 4.3 million. And over 300,000 people leave work with health problems...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society makes the case for strengthening sick pay for the self-employed. Self-employed workers account for 13 per cent of all people in work. There are more self-employed people than work in manufacturing, and four times as many as work in finance and insurance. Yet they have historically...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at making the circular economy in England work at scale. Like most developed countries, the UK produces millions of tonnes of unnecessary waste each year. In 2020, the last year data was recorded, we produced 191m tonnes of total waste, with England responsible for 163m...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society explores making the media work for democracy. The UK media is among the least trusted in the democratic world. Largely owned by a handful of corporations, and with a track record of abuse, misinformation and sensationalism, this is perhaps little surprise. Yet it is also true...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society explores the government's commitment to building 1.5m new homes during this parliament. The government is committed to building 1.5m new homes during this parliament. This is necessary, but will be extremely challenging – in large part thanks to an inheritance of record-low planning approvals, housing ‘starts’...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society sets out a public health approach to gambling. Gambling is often seen as just another part of our cultural – and indeed physical – landscape. Our high streets host gambling shops, our sports teams advertise gambling companies, and our digital world offers us unlimited gambling options....

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society shows how the government can make people better off in highly challenging circumstances. At the next general election, ministers will be judged by Ronald Reagan’s famous question: “are you better off than you were?” When voters considered this question last year, they answered ‘no’ – and...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society makes the case for a fully funded fair pay agreement in order to tackle the workforce crisis and improve the quality of care. The treatment of our social care workforce is a national scandal. England’s 1.6 million care workers suffer from endemic low pay and poor...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society argues that communitarianism provides the roadmap the left needs today. Communitarianism has long been part of the Fabian story, most notably developed by G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney. But until now, it has been a subplot — overshadowed by the big-state, democratic collectivism associated with the...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society makes the case that improving our bus network is crucial to fulfilling Labour’s growth mission. Buses are the backbone of public transport in the UK. For every journey by train, more than 2.5 are taken by bus. Yet despite their importance, buses have too often been...