This article originally was originally published by the Labour Campaign for Human Rights (LCHR). The ongoing Covid crisis has brought the issue of so-called Social Rights into sharp relief. These rights…
14 Apr, 2020
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11 Apr, 2020
Corbyn, it wasn’t all bad
I was ready to let the Corbyn era drift off into the sunset and enjoy the fond memories of some and the disdain of others. That was until I read Sarah…
10 Apr, 2020
It can’t be that everything changes except how we practise politics
This might seem a strange time to be promoting deliberation. A crisis requires speed and heightened attention, a laser-like focus on the problem. We need powerful, centralised institutions, authoritative networks…
09 Apr, 2020
2021 – Huddersfield in the New World
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
Crisis Conversations: Learning as We Go for Long Term Transition
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
Labour: the Nation’s Capacity Builders?
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
It’s Bloody Complicated – A Compass Podcast (Episode 2)
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
An open letter to the UK government calling for faster and more far-reaching action
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
Civil Society and COVID-19
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
Austerity has weakened our societal immune system
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
Will Individualism Survive The Coronavirus?
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
Nine things I’ve noticed this week
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.…