We should probably have answered the first question a long time ago, but it is difficult to understand something which is immediately compelling you to act. Now, as we move…
04 Feb, 2020
09 Jan, 2020
Labour and Proportional Representation
For the first time someone pitching to lead the Labour Party is demanding that it embrace proportional voting. Clive Lewis has not yet set out his stall in full. But…
23 Dec, 2019
How should civil society respond to the election result?
During this election, many things changed, if not the Prime Minster. A government of the Right, whose powers will soon be augmented by the transfer of powers from Europe, has…
23 Dec, 2019
Defying the Right – how Labour in East London fought back
The depth of the general election loss doesn’t get any easier to accept the further we get from the result. But there have been glimmers of light for Labour across…
20 Dec, 2019
Where now for anti-poverty politics?
Did you see Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You or Channel 4's Growing up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids? The first, based on real life, painted an unbearably painful picture of the impact…
19 Dec, 2019
Britain needs the Liberal Democrats, now more than ever
“A society cannot be free and is very unlikely to be successful for long unless the men and women in it have real power to determine their own destiny. The…
13 Dec, 2019
Digging Deep, Building High
Last night was in some ways worse than expected. We must take time to mourn hopes dashed and care for each other. But if we are honest there are so…
06 Dec, 2019
We need to remake democracy
In 1934 the political historian RH Tawney said that the UK is ‘the oldest and toughest plutocracy in the world’. Our democracy has been unjust for a very long time…
29 Nov, 2019
How to read an election
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman provides a handy reading guide for the 12th December general election. There’s not much doubt politics is getting hot, hotter and hottest just as the nights draw…
23 Sep, 2019
‘What if Labour Can’t Win Alone?’
Below is Caroline Lucas’ opening remarks at the Compass fringe event – ‘What if Labour can’t win alone?’ - at the 2019 UK Labour Conference in Brighton. Thank you –…
17 Sep, 2019
A Progressive Alliance vs A Rebel Alliance
Mark Perryman (editor of Corbynism From Below) argues that it’s a bottom up campaign that the opposition need to win. We can argue the case for and against tactical voting…
02 Aug, 2019
Our politics is hitting rock bottom – what can we do about it?
Compass was recently invited to a roundtable hosted by Compassion in Politics, a campaign group formed in 2018 by Jennifer Nadel and Matt Hawkins out of a deep concern that values…