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…
09 Jan, 2020
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09 Jan, 2020
Like it or not, Labour, but a Progressive Alliance means coming to terms with the Lib Dems
Compass’ public meeting on the Progressive Alliance at the 2019 Labour Party Conference in Brighton was dogged by an almost visceral refusal on the part of many of those present…
08 Jan, 2020
Against Voluntarism
Doing more, much more, of the same won’t be enough – it’s time for a different, better Corbynism. Hastings and Rye, the final Sunday of the campaign. For the fourth…
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…
17 Dec, 2019
Why we desperately need a Progressive Alliance
As we contemplate the prospect of five more years of the Tories, I am more convinced than ever that under our broken-beyond-repair electoral system, only a progressive alliance offers real…
17 Dec, 2019
Scottish Labour, Self-Government and the SNP
The 2019 UK general election confirmed the divided nature of politics, the demise of British-wide politics and the emergence of a four-nation political system. The Tories were elected on a…
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…
11 Dec, 2019
When second choice isn’t the worst choice
In the Tory-Lib Dem and Tory-SNP marginals, Corbyn-supporting Mark Perryman argues Labour voters’ second choice is one worth having. I live in Lewes, East Sussex, a Tory-Lib Dem marginal since 1997. There’s…
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…