Amazing Tedx talk by Tom from our friends at Common Cause
17 Jul, 2013
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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.
17 Jul, 2013
March of the Makers – rebalancing our economy needs more push from government
By Michael Kitson, Cambridge University Senior Lecturer in global macroeconomics, Assistant Director of the Centre for Business Research. If the Chancellor George Osborne is to turn his vision of reinvigorating…
14 Jul, 2013
Learning from Italy’s 5 Star Movement
The result of February’s Italian general election was an indictment of the countries politics between 2008 and 2013. Citizens who had once voted for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia now longed…
14 Jul, 2013
Learning from Italy's 5 Star Movement
The result of February’s Italian general election was an indictment of the countries politics between 2008 and 2013. Citizens who had once voted for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia now longed…
09 Jul, 2013
All our sporting summers rolled into one
Mark Perryman explores what Andy Murray and the Lions tell us about sport’s impact on national identity “ The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of…
08 Jul, 2013
Falkirk: the end of the fix?
The Falkirk affair matters because it is a symptom of a much deeper political malaise - for Labour obviously but for a very old and tired looking party politics in…
07 Jul, 2013
Why I am not renewing my Liberal Democrat membership
On Sunday 30th June, my membership of the Liberal Democrats was due for renewal. After 25 years in the party, I have decided not to renew. That decision has been…
03 Jul, 2013
Labour should embrace an EU referendum and offer a better Europe
Europe as a good society is published by today by Compass and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Download and comment here. Labour is getting itself stuck on the hook of Europe.…
02 Jul, 2013
Towards a One Nation Housing Policy
Our new ‘thinkpiece’ is based upon research by the Matrix Housing Partnership and the Human City Institute. It proposes ways in which Labour’s ‘One Nation’ emblem can encompass social housing.…
01 Jul, 2013
Time to steal back the commons
Compass are posing the question ‘How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it?’ Here are a few thoughts on this seen through the…
28 Jun, 2013
1945 and 2015: They really don’t match
Guardian readers may have noticed that the Labour leadership has committed the party to maintain (i.e., not reverse) the cuts by the Coalition planned for the current budget in 2015-2016, though not…
28 Jun, 2013
1945 and 2015: They really don't match
Guardian readers may have noticed that the Labour leadership has committed the party to maintain (i.e., not reverse) the cuts by the Coalition planned for the current budget in 2015-2016, though not…