Believers keep the faith. Matthew Goodwin, the favourite academic pundit of the Farageist Right, still claims that “Brexit ushered us all into an incredibly exciting and entirely new era in our…
31 Jan, 2024
Brexit
21 Feb, 2023
One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: what now?
The massive Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022 in clear breach of all international law revived an old spectre, that of a major European land war that the…
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…
05 Aug, 2019
We must build an imaginative and pragmatic alliance
A Remain Alliance is not the same as a Progressive Alliance. That’s what we said when we were asked for our view on the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and it’s…
23 Jul, 2019
Is it Boris Johnson or is it us, the system and the culture?
We keep losing - because we keep reacting in the same way. No more! After Brexit and Trump we get the third instalment in the great moving-right-show: Boris Johnson. Take…
27 May, 2019
What the EU elections result means for our democracy (and for the Labour Party)
The European election results, when they came in, were bang on what had been predicted: the Brexit ‘Party’ triumphant, Labour and the Tories humiliated, the Lib Dems and Greens both…
15 Feb, 2019
“We need a way out of this mess”, say petition signatories
Our petition demanding a Citizens’ Assembly for Brexit has now reached 75k signatories and we’ve been looking at the comments to find out more about why this solution to the…
17 Dec, 2018
We need a Citizens’ Assembly to break the Brexit deadlock
Our politics and our parliament is in deadlock over Brexit. But if we choose to learn from other countries in how we resolve our differences, this could be a moment…
17 Oct, 2018
New publication: The Causes and Cures of Brexit
Two and a half years ago the UK saw the biggest democratic revolution of a generation. The vote for Brexit had been a long time coming. Millions of our fellow…