As ever we'd love your input, thoughts and reflections and we encourage you to comment below. The Labour leadership contest forces Compass to think really hard about its political strategy.…
29 Jul, 2015
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.
29 Jul, 2015
As ever we'd love your input, thoughts and reflections and we encourage you to comment below. The Labour leadership contest forces Compass to think really hard about its political strategy.…
28 Jul, 2015
Sometimes we get to experience politics as it should be – fun, informative, empathetic, deep and hopeful. Last night in Brighton and Hove was one of those moments. It was…
27 Jul, 2015
For what and for whom does the Labour Party stand? That has been – or at least should have been – a central question during the continuing post-mortem following the…
22 Jul, 2015
It is a great disappointment that Labour MPs have failed to provide leadership and voice on benefit cuts to defend the poorest and marginalised people. To take just one group…
21 Jul, 2015
Labour has lost a lot of elections, and always wondered why. This has led to a whole literature of ‘why Labour lost’, highlights including the “affluent worker” debate, Crosland’s attempted…
20 Jul, 2015
The Progressive Narrative event organised by Compass West Midlands in Birmingham on Saturday was an ambitious event, in a low key way. A group of people came together in a…
15 Jul, 2015
Soon, always soon, Capital dreams, I will be free of the need for politics … and free of the need for humans too … Capital’s realised utopia would be a…
13 Jul, 2015
We need to think of poverty in relative terms – the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted. 'So I want this message…
07 Jul, 2015
Did Labour lose the election because it was too left wing? That’s become a standard explanation in right-wing newspapers and among some Labour commentators. But Hopi Sen – who sits…
03 Jul, 2015
Eliane Glaser lays out six big questions for the left – social democrats, radicals and the new ‘soft’ left alike. After four decades of neoliberal domination, she says, now is…
01 Jul, 2015
What do children do to make themselves poor? And how we can we stop them doing it? It looks very bad having to announce that their numbers are growing (a 200,000 increase to 2.5 million…
26 Jun, 2015
Mark Perryman makes the case for a two-wheeled revolution Le Tour is now as much a fixture of the Great British Sporting Summer as Wimbledon strawberries and cream, a flutter…