It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change. Miles Davis 'Nobody has all the answers but all of…
21 Oct, 2020
45 Degree Change
14 Oct, 2020
Responding, building and transforming collaboratively in Barking and Dagenham
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone, not least local government. Many councils have struggled to cope with the fallout from the virus, while others, like Barking & Dagenham, have managed…
29 Jun, 2020
Mindful 45˚ Politics
The article originally appeared in Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’, a Compass publication edited by Phil Cohen. In his pamphlet 45˚ Change, Neal Lawson warns that ‘in all…
20 May, 2020
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? How kindness can drive an agile, creative, and deliberative democracy
'The feedback I’m receiving certainly reveals a positive local picture, one where statutory organisations, established and newly developed Voluntary and Community Sector organisations or groups, and the informal network of…
08 Apr, 2020
Crisis Conversations: Learning as We Go for Long Term Transition
This article originally appeared on the Rapid Transition Alliance website. We are now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest and most sudden global upheavals for…
16 Mar, 2020
This Changes Everything
Most of us have experienced nothing like this before. It is strange, forbidding and dislocating to a degree probably only experienced by those alive in the early 1940s. Events will…
23 Oct, 2019
We live with crisis but hope is everywhere around us
At Compass we always believe the best in people. It’s the political system that is failing all of us. Despite the crisis, up and down the country we see examples…
15 Apr, 2019
New thinking on political change: Common Platforms and 45º Change
Ever since the 2017 general election, when we ran the Progressive Alliance campaign and Britain narrowly missed out on the prospect of a progressive coalition government, we have been thinking…