The coronavirus pandemic is making most of us feel quite scared at the moment, and it’s by no means certain that this fear will subside once we emerge from the…
09 Apr, 2020
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.
09 Apr, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is making most of us feel quite scared at the moment, and it’s by no means certain that this fear will subside once we emerge from the…
08 Apr, 2020
This article originally appeared on the Rapid Transition Alliance website. We are now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest and most sudden global upheavals for…
03 Apr, 2020
Ultimately Labour’s new leadership must show they are willing to take the big progressive gamble – to trust the people. At any other time, the election of a new Labour…
03 Apr, 2020
These are unprecedented times and we need to rise to the new and enormous challenges we now face. The crisis isn’t just forcing us to think differently, but behave differently. On…
01 Apr, 2020
Compass has signed an open letter to the UK government along with 96 economists, academics and directors of research organisations. An edited version first appeared in The Times on Monday 23 March…
26 Mar, 2020
The article was originally published by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. “Neighbourhoods are the cells which keep society whole. We are threatened with infections, from outside and from within; our powers…
24 Mar, 2020
How easily a house of cards comes tumbling down. Just as our bodies need a strong immune system to fight the coronavirus disease, so too do our societies need resilience,…
20 Mar, 2020
The current national and global crisis in which we find ourselves has exposed the myth that a society based upon individualism can work, flourish and be sustainable. We can overcome…
20 Mar, 2020
The blog was originally published on Julia Unwin's personal website. We’ve known that a global pandemic would come for decades, and it’s been modelled and planned for time after time.…
18 Mar, 2020
Two weeks ago myself and my Co-Founder Michael Pugh launched the Basic Income Conversation as a new arm of Compass. We’re working to further the case for a basic income…
16 Mar, 2020
A crisis like no other It is now clear that we face a global health emergency as a result of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. The evolving pandemic,…
16 Mar, 2020
Most of us have experienced nothing like this before. It is strange, forbidding and dislocating to a degree probably only experienced by those alive in the early 1940s. Events will…