The current focus on policies for returning to economic growth threatens to obscure the problems of sustaining growth on a finite planet. A new study hopes to respond to this…
07 Jun, 2013
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11 Jun, 2013
How to share your story
Your story matters. Telling your story is the art of translating values into action so that individuals, communities, and movements construct their identity, make choices, and inspire action. We want…
18 Dec, 2012
Reflections of the year 2011-2012
Our Political Positioning and Priorities Statement (below) sets out our strategic political position as well as a list of key priorities and activities proposed for the year ahead. Compass members…
05 Dec, 2012
The five year assault
Howard Reed (Co-Editor of Plan B and Director of Landman Economics) writes for us about what he sees as a malicious Autumn Statement from a failed Chancellor determined to spend…
13 Jan, 2013
The new walls being built around our schools
Ayesha is unlucky – twice over. Her first mistake was to be born in a country that is one of the few remaining local authorities operating an '11+' test for…
01 Mar, 2013
After Eastleigh, the crisis of party politics
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. Antonio Gramsci:…
08 Mar, 2013
Ten ways to survive as a woman on the left
So I'm a woman, trying to survive on “the left”- that strange world populated by institutions with mission statements, equality policies and progressive solutions. Don’t get me wrong: there are…
02 Apr, 2013
How the language of welfare poisoned our social security
"April is the cruellest month": how true TS Eliot's words will ring for millions of low-income working age people reliant on benefits and tax credits as they face a raft…
09 Apr, 2013
Life Under Thatcher: Share Your Stories
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher's tenure in political office will now be discussed at length. Those who will frame this debate though, are often far too concerned with the health…
23 Apr, 2013
Seven suggestions for Scottish Labour to be the party of change
It seems to be the age of seven questions as Tony Blair once again acts as an uncomfortable sage for Labour and Ed Miliband. With Scottish Labour having just held…
23 Apr, 2013
9 lessons we can learn from Thatcher
These reflections were made by Zoe Williams at our recent event 'What can we learn from Thatcherism?' Further details and the audio recording from the night in can be found…
02 May, 2013
The Good Society debate is thriving in Europe
The Good Society Debate, that was launched five years ago by the SPD Secretary General Andrea Nahles and the Head of the Labour Party Policy Review, Jon Cruddas MP, has…