🌹Labour Party Conference is coming!
@thefabians.bsky.social will be brining The Festival of Ideas back to Liverpool to explore the big issues of our time.
We've got a wonderful venue, a great team who deliver impactful events. If you're looking to organise an event at conference, get in touch.
“Getting AI right could make public services more human”
Civil Servants can build better services through AI - if they are given the keys to so, argues @sasjkia.bsky.social for @civilserviceworld.bsky.social 👇
civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
"Civil servants are not ‘blockers’, standing in the way of progress. Given the right conditions, they are ‘builders’, ready and willing to innovate to improve public services."
@sasjkia.bsky.social on the findings of our research into AI in the service:
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
As an ex-civil servant, I understand both the deep commitment to public service and the frustration with the barriers to contributing that are so prevalent across government. This report offers practical solutions to give civil servants the tools to deliver.
A pleasure to by invited by Civil Service World to pen an op-ed on my recent @thefabians.bsky.social report Adopt, Innovate Transform: How civil servants can help deliver a smarter state using AI.
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
“We want a closer relationship with the EU. We want deeper integration. We want to work with, not against, our EU partners”
@chriswardmp.bsky.social sets out how the government is building a new partnership with the EU in @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2026/03/labo...
“The next Scottish government should commit to a genuinely ambitious housing target that delivers the enough homes to meet need”
@kathsangster.bsky.social & @bencooper1995.bsky.social explain how we can ensure homes are built across Scotland in @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
🎙️COMING UP: Fabian Thinking: Book Club
Our next guest is journalist and author Morgan Jones!
We will hear from Morgan about her book ‘No Second Chances: Inside the story of the campaign for a second EU referendum’
🗓️ Tuesday 31 March
⏰ 18.00
📺 Streamed LIVE into your home wherever you are!
Scotland is experiencing the worst housebuilding slump since the Second World War.
The next Scottish government needs to get Scotland building again.
My report for @scottishfabians.bsky.social and @thefabians.bsky.social Housing Centre sets out how.
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@jadeazim.bsky.social @soniakumarmp.bsky.social @jenburkecdf.bsky.social @racheldburgin.bsky.social @catrionamunro.bsky.social @sezking78.bsky.social @hannah-o-rourke.bsky.social @ruby-herbert.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social
Look forward to this online event TONIGHT! Join us on Zoom to discuss how to win over the UK’s largest swing voter group - women!
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Co-author of Adopt, Innovate, Transform @sasjkia.bsky.social outlines the report’s main 5 asks of government to help encourage successful AI adoption:
📢 New Report - Adopt, Innovate, Transform by Senior Researcher @sasjkia.bsky.social, supported by @fdaunion.bsky.social
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A decade after the referendum, there is a growing recognition of the costs of Brexit.
Our upcoming report - trailed in the Guardian - will explore how we can rebuild our relationship with the EU.
Labour's spring statement showed progress but Gorton & Denton proved people still feel the pinch and popular policies haven't cut through.
I argue policy & narrative must work together, relentless delivery backing up a story proudly told at every turn 👇
leftfootforward.org/2026/03/fabi...
The whole dancing in Westminster thing another example of the snark filled rage-bait which powers social media. Yeah it’s a silly and maybe ill-timed. It’s also meaningless and doesn’t really say anything about MPs, Parliament or anything else. Anyone worked up about it should calm down.
⭐️ Kicking off National Apprenticeship Week by highlighting the life‑changing opportunities apprenticeships open up for people starting or growing their careers.
If you’re in Peckham, it’s a great moment to explore local and national apprenticeship opportunities.
naw.appawards.co.uk
💬 "All working people deserve a future built on stability and peace – not fear and chaos. That’s the future the UK trade union movement will keep fighting for – in 2026 and beyond."
🔴 Read Paul Nowak's column for LabourList here👇
labourlist.org/2026/01/paul...
I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
The Employment Rights Bill has passed. This is about good work for the many not the few:
- Exploitative zero hours contracts banned
- Sick pay extended to low earners
- Notice of shifts
- Family leave strengthened
Change promised.
Change delivered.
NEW - The Employment Rights bill has finally passed, after a tortured time in the Lords.
Christmas cheer for ministers and trade unions
There is a need to address quality and accessibility if our housing stock is to meet the needs of an ageing society
The benefits are significant for NHS, cost of living and downsizing
Read Millie Brown from @ageingbetter.bsky.social and I for
@insidehousing.bsky.social on how we can do this 👇
New paper out today:
The Sea Wall matters to Labour
They are looking to Reform, but the government can win them back
There should be a relentless focus on the cost of living
But the Gov needs to show the country values the contribution that coastal communities make
Read my column for @labourlist.bsky.social 👇
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
And here we also recommend a living standards task force, to report in to such a committee:
We recommended a cabinet committee to oversee economic policy - with PM and Chancellor, and other ministers attending as needed: fabians.org.uk/wp-content/u...
