Anti-Conservative tactical voting will be ‘incredibly important’ in this May’s local elections and ‘will make a big difference’, the leader of Basingstoke and Deane Borough council has said. Cllr Paul…
25 Apr, 2024
How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
25 Apr, 2024
Anti-Conservative tactical voting will be ‘incredibly important’ in this May’s local elections and ‘will make a big difference’, the leader of Basingstoke and Deane Borough council has said. Cllr Paul…
23 Apr, 2024
Campaigners have formally lent their support to two Oxfordshire prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) in the first endorsements of a campaign to elect progressives committed to democratic renewal. Crucial to this…
23 Apr, 2024
We need to talk about England. For far too long, there has been a squeamishness on the left about ever discussing England in its own right. St George’s Day is…
18 Apr, 2024
The Labour-Lib Dem coalition on Milton Keynes City Council ‘puts people before politics,’ the leader of the council has said. Labour’s Peter Marland, who has been leader of the council…
16 Apr, 2024
Compass launched its local elections campaign this week with new research in the Mirror that revealed the shocking democratic deficit at the heart of Tory-run councils across the country. A staggering…
15 Apr, 2024
Our research and reports brings together the councils and mayors up for election in May 2024, the democratic deficit in those races, the potential progressive tragedies and quotes from a…
12 Apr, 2024
What are the policy priorities and prospects for the Liberal Democrats as the election nears? Priorities first: we are as dedicated as anyone to getting the Tories out. They must…
10 Apr, 2024
The leader of Cambridgeshire County Council has urged voters in Peterborough to consider which party they should back ‘to try and work out how to not have a Conservative’ in…
05 Apr, 2024
The Liberal Democrat leader of West Oxfordshire District Council has warned against splitting the progressive vote and handing victory to the Conservatives in the upcoming local elections. After the 2022 local elections,…
28 Mar, 2024
It was a lightbulb moment that caused me to write a book, SHORT-CHANGED! How the rich and powerful extract wealth from the real economy and what WE can do about…
21 Mar, 2024
No one outside of a diminishing band of party bureaucrats believes our political and democratic system is working. Of course, the charade continues; of PMQ's, of who's up and who's…
20 Mar, 2024
UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…