Excessive Inequality and wealth redistribution to the rich have wrecked the economy. 'Trussonomics' won't help. Our new prime minister has already set out her primary economic principles. Although a £90bn…
23 Sep, 2022
Inequality
27 May, 2022
A modest basic income could cut poverty to lowest level in 60 years
Read the report A new universal basic income model could cut poverty by more than half, reducing it to its lowest level for 60 years. This fiscally neutral scheme involves…
25 Mar, 2022
Whatever happened to the promise of freedom?
Ardler, Dundee, pictured in the 1970s. Photo by Retro Dundee. Freedom is a word and ideal that is constantly bandied about, invoked and promised. It is so powerful that it…
28 Jun, 2021
Same Storm, Different Boats – the impacts of climate change fall unevenly and unequally
Photo by Thomas Millot on Unsplash It is easy to think of climate change as a problem for future generations to deal with and tackle, especially if its effects are…
17 Aug, 2020
Universal Basic Income & Universal Basic Services: How can we bring them together?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea but has recently gained some credence, with interest in possible pilot studies shown by the Scottish national government and one UK…
13 May, 2020
Reasons for hope: why and how we can #BuildBackBetter
The crisis reveals much and will change more - for good or bad. Everything feels like it is now up for grabs. There is much pain and suffering and our…
07 May, 2020
Insecurity at the top can create security for all
In September, Compass will be co-launching a report analysing what over 100 interviews tell us about the attitudes and civic and political behaviour of the top 10 per cent highest…
10 Oct, 2018
A framework for understanding exploitative societies – Part 2
Part 2: division and oppression Part 1 looked at how individual mistreatment can become self-perpetuating and evolve into structural oppression, and how punishment and blame lock this in place. Part…
16 Nov, 2017
“Against Meritocracy”: why meritocracy won’t save us
The Paradise Papers has exposed the labyrinthine routes through which the wealthy secure trickle-up economics. The super-rich have supersized their wealth by investing 300 billion pounds of UK GDP in…
07 Oct, 2014
London: the greatest city in the world at what? And for whom?
“It was never my intention to nibble around the edges with policies of timid maintenance; I ran to take dead aim at the crisis of our time” said New York…