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…
15 Apr, 2024
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12 Apr, 2024
What’s next for the Liberal Democrats?
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
Local Leaders Spotlight: Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council urges anti-Conservative tactical voting
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
Local Leaders Spotlight: West Oxfordshire council leader warns against splitting the vote in upcoming local elections
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
How the rich and powerful extract wealth from the real economy and what we can do about it
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
A democratic revolt from below is bubbling up
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
Scotland’s centre-left politics and the dynamics of the Labour-SNP divide
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…
14 Mar, 2024
Breaking the chain of despair: Lessons from Portugal
Picture this: a left-of-centre party wins a majority to renew the country and bring back the hope that things can actually get better. To do so it appeases the forces…
08 Mar, 2024
Compass Summer 2024 internship
Compass, the pressure group for a Good Society, is offering a summer internship for a motivated person. This is a good opportunity for someone who shares our values and beliefs…
07 Mar, 2024
The Enemy Within: 40 years since the Miners’ Strike
Mark Perryman digs deep to find an enduring significance for the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. Published in 1995 amidst the eruption of the Miners'…
28 Feb, 2024
50 years on: Lessons from the February 1974 election
On this day half a century ago, Britain went to the polls. The political script today isn’t the same today, but lessons can still be learnt. Back then the Tories had…
27 Feb, 2024
Compass members on creating the blueprint for a new economy
Developing an alternative for the economy is essential for creating a new settlement and a ‘good society’. Britain needs a fundamental change in direction. The post -1980, pro-inequality, pro-market ideology…