Compass member Charlie McCarthy writes on life in post-Brexit Britain... How do we begin to explain the EU Referendum vote of 23rd June? Well it’s a tall order and there…
01 Jul, 2016
30 Jun, 2016
Time to Start Organising.
This is a moment of great threat for our country and all of us living here. It is the job of progressives to come together and turn this threat into…
26 Jun, 2016
Proportional Representation and Brexit
In May West London Compass and My Fair London held a joint meeting on PR to explore whether the left could co-operate around electoral reform, and perhaps, then, broader issues.…
27 Jun, 2016
Progressive Brexit: Time to Buck Up
Journalist and previous Parliamentary candidate Polly Billington writes on Brexit Britain for the Compass blog. Twitter: @thurrockpolly We are British. We are better than this. So you’re allowed to cry and…
24 Jun, 2016
Brexit: Silver Linings Playbook
Where to start? Shock, bewilderment, sadness, anger. Not just because the country will now take the extraordinary step of walking its own plank to Brexit - but because of how…
23 Jun, 2016
We are all the People
We are all the People. For a renaissance of participation, stop ‘othering’ those with different views What a very painful emotional turmoil we, as a country, find ourselves in. With…
21 Jun, 2016
Brexit as Nostalgia for Empire
'The run up to the EU referendum has shown Britain for what it is. Woodwork: the washed-up bracken of the British Empire, and the ugly flotsam of its legacy of…
20 Jun, 2016
What would society look like with universal basic income?
Laurie Penny writes for the New Statesman on what a Universal Basic Income might look like in the 21st century. It may seem blasphemous to neoliberals, but a universal basic…
02 Jun, 2016
The left should follow John McDonnell, and stop being anti-austerity
We all have our horror stories of the victims of deficit reduction. Mine is the sick feeling in my stomach last October, as Cameron made his Compassionate Conservative speech last…
01 Jun, 2016
Catching up with Portugal
50 years ago England beat Portugal in the ’66 World Cup Final. Mark Perryman argues English decline has left England racing to keep up with their Euro rivals in tomorrow’s…
27 May, 2016
Member’s Thoughts – The Measure of Prosperity
Compass member Geoff Naylor asks how do we measure prosperity today? The great misfortune of present day life is that we have forgotten the purpose of work and become confused…
23 May, 2016
Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come?
Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley discuss the growing demands for a UBI and how it could be introduced in the UK. You can read and download the full piece here or see below…