Scottish Labour once seemed to have an ironclad grip on Scottish politics, winning election after election, and seeing off opponents whether it was Tories, SNP or the occasional Lib Dem.…
10 Sep, 2020
Labour Party
03 Sep, 2020
Working together or falling apart?
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party was undoubtedly controversial. But it shouldn't be overlooked that under his tenure, membership grew to levels not seen for decades, the party was…
20 Jul, 2020
Corbynism and Electoral Reform: will Labour ever back PR?
June 2020 saw voting reform take place. This reform was not a change to the voting system for Westminster elections, but how one third of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC)…
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…
11 Mar, 2020
It’s Bloody Complicated – A Compass Podcast
After huge set backs like Brexit and the last election, now is the time to find the space to think, talk and discuss what's gone wrong and how we put…
09 Jan, 2020
Labour and Proportional Representation
For the first time someone pitching to lead the Labour Party is demanding that it embrace proportional voting. Clive Lewis has not yet set out his stall in full. But…
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…
18 Feb, 2019
Labour split: not a blip, but a symptom
The announcement today that seven Labour MPs have renounced the whip and are setting up as independents comes as no surprise. The seven spoke of their personal reasons for leaving…
27 Sep, 2018
Could Corbyn’s Labour be the future? A work in progress, but now imaginable
Labour conference this week is an important staging post in the new Corbyn-led, energised mass party - not just the biggest in Britain, but bigger than all the other party…
20 Feb, 2017
The Progressive Alliance and Hard Brexit
I was for a time a serious competitive middle distance runner, nurtured on the mantra of the great Franz Stampfl who coached Bannister to the four minute mile: “Go on…