A new project from Compass and Labour Together The Power Now Project is a collaboration between Compass and Labour Together, to explore the potential of ‘new power’.Over the past two…
18 Jul, 2022
Good Society
14 Aug, 2020
What will Spring be like? A post-pandemic agenda for a better world
The pandemic has been a master class in systems thinking on a global, national and community level. Social renewal is vital. This will seem but a utopian distraction from urgent…
04 Aug, 2020
What would Greta do?
Green Party leadership election: how can the party boost its influence on national politics? “I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. [...] And then I…
23 Jul, 2020
Modern slavery: a prism into our world
“Although the Covid-19 crisis has caused grim new problems for Leicester’s garment workers, the exploitation detailed in the report is not new. Concerns about working conditions and illegally low pay…
14 Jul, 2020
#BuildBackBetter: You know it makes sense, but how do you do it?
The article was originally published at Vulnerability 360. Throughout the lockdown, and now an extended lockdown, in our home city, Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of…
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…
11 May, 2020
Deliberating with care for a caring democracy
Sometimes, when times seem unlike anything we have known before, we need to reach for ideas that are not new. The current crisis does not necessarily mean that we have to…
08 May, 2020
What makes a Good Society?
As the economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote, “there is no chance of the better society, unless the good and achievable society is clearly defined”. So, what makes a Good Society?…
16 Apr, 2020
Crisis conversations: learning as we go for long-term transition #2
This blog was originally published on the Rapid Transition Alliance website. In the debate over the global response to Covid-19 a battle of hashtags has broken out between those urging…
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…
03 Apr, 2020
Labour: the Nation’s Capacity Builders?
Ultimately Labour’s new leadership must show they are willing to take the big progressive gamble – to trust the people. At any other time, the election of a new Labour…
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…