UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
20 Mar, 2024
Democracy
07 Mar, 2023
International Women’s Day: How PR could address the gender imbalance in our politics
To mark International Women’s Day this year, we wanted to draw attention to a piece of the puzzle that upholds sexism in politics: the role our archaic voting system plays…
02 Feb, 2023
Why Gordon Brown’s constitutional reforms need PR
Last year Gordon Brown launched his long-awaited report on the future of the UK constitution. One of the major criticisms of his proposals is that they do not include electoral…
14 Nov, 2022
An open letter to Labour Party General Secretary David Evans
Labour’s HQ is taking an extremely heavy-handed approach to Parliamentary selections by ruling out perfectly acceptable candidates on increasingly spurious grounds. Factionalism is one thing. Vice-like control that subverts democracy…
19 Oct, 2022
Clive Lewis MP: From 2022 Labour Party Conference
This is a transcription of a speech Clive Lewis MP gave on the 26th September 2022 at the Win As One event at Labour Party Conference. You can watch a…
07 Sep, 2022
“Entropy, entropy, they’ve all got into entropy”
I'm writing this on my first day back at work after a fortnight of rest and truly revitalising food for the soul, and I know that I am immensely privileged…
18 Jul, 2022
Power Now!
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 Mar, 2021
Constitutional reform must be led by people, not politicians
Everybody knows the UK’s political system is broken. Fixing our democracy can only be led by the citizens it exists to serve. That's why Compass has joined 17 other organisations…
17 Sep, 2020
Working differently within our current democratic structures
Grace Barnett’s recently published Compass paper, 'Democracy, Participation and Civil Society' contains wonderful examples of pioneers of the “cultural infrastructure for a new democratic settlement”, all with the aim to…
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…
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…
11 May, 2020
Democracy and the Coronavirus
Is an alert civil society an effective antidote to the cynical manipulation that mars contemporary democracy? Those of us who have argued that it is will soon face a stiff…