Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this government’s spring budget. With living standards set for the largest single-year fall since records began in the mid 1950s, the government will oversee a 5% fall…
24 Mar, 2022
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17 Mar, 2022
What do we do about Gordon Brown’s take on Scotland and Britain?
Photo by World Economic Forum on flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 Gordon Brown is a defining figure in the history of modern Scotland: a presence for many of us through our adult…
07 Apr, 2022
Book Review “Keystroke Capitalism: How Banks Create Money for the Few” by Aaron Sahr
Aaron Sahr offers a rich discourse on the huge growth of financial markets in modern economies and the implication for inequality. We face a ‘trinity of growing private wealth, mounting…
12 Mar, 2022
What if the leaders of ‘the West’ were to follow Zelenskyy’s lead – and involve us?
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash [buzzsprout episode='10224714' player='true'] A few days ago I wrote a LinkedIn post offering a way of seeing the hope in this darkest time, through…
28 Feb, 2022
Compass is looking for new Board members
We are seeking people to join our Board from Spring 2022, to work collaboratively with Compass’s existing Board Members and staff team, in support of our mission to shape a…
26 Feb, 2022
Here’s how minority government can work: new report from Compass and FES
Labour and the Liberal Democrats are in talks over a non-aggression pact. With the parties working together informally in a general election, they need to be thinking now about how…
16 Feb, 2022
Details of the Welsh basic income pilot announced
In this blog Co-Founder of the Basic Income Conversation Cleo Goodman looks at the details of the Welsh basic income pilot released today. Today details of the Welsh basic income pilot have…
15 Jan, 2022
Introducing Only Stand to Win
Compass is launching a campaign to help make Keir Starmer prime minister – it’s called Only Stand to Win. The campaign is to get Labour to change its rulebook so…
23 Dec, 2021
Twelve Books for the Twelve Days of Christmas
Preparing for the season of goodwill Philosophy Football's Mark Perryman selects books to tide us over into the New Year, and beyond. Apart from bah humbug miserabilists those of…
20 Dec, 2021
The Progressive Alliance By-election Guide
So, a by-election has been called. We want the best-placed progressive candidate to win. We’re pursuing a progressive alliance approach. What do we do? Compass has its own plan for…
17 Dec, 2021
The Speech Keir Starmer Should Make After North Shropshire
Image by UK Parliament on flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Here’s the speech that Keir Starmer should make today. Handily, Mark Perryman has written it for him. Edited extracts below. Boris…
17 Dec, 2021
Huge Lib Dem win must forge alliance that can beat the Tories
Responding to the Liberal Democrats’ victory in the North Shropshire by-election, Neal Lawson, Director of Compass, said: ‘This is a good day for all progressives. Voters have formed an alliance…