The Centre for Welfare Reform, in association with Compass, recently published a paper: [R]evolution Road – travelling the terrains of creativity, power and love. The paper is the first one…
08 Aug, 2014
25 Jul, 2014
Join our Management Committee
Are you passionate about making a good society a reality? Got some ideas on what Compass needs to do in this important election year? Well have a think about joining…
22 Jul, 2014
Community Development in Health
We all know it: our friends, colleagues and family make a huge difference to our lives. They can help us in bad times and celebrate in good. They can help…
21 Jul, 2014
Energy efficiency should be top infrastructure priority
Melting into a puddle in a boiling hot office, it’s easy to forget the winter, and the fact that every year thousands of people die from living in cold homes.…
18 Jul, 2014
Sustainability for all
Popularising calls for action on climate change is essential if we are to force governments to act. For too long it has been seen as a fringe issue promoted by…
10 Jul, 2014
Education Inquiry – Over to you
We have been very busy over the last year conducting interviews, having seminars with students and experts as well as holding national and local events to get to the bottom…
09 Jul, 2014
Making London the greatest place on Earth to grow up
As David Robinson argued on this blog last year, the London Mayoralty is an idiosyncratic institution that gives us an unparalleled opportunity to road-test the new kind of politics that…
05 Jul, 2014
New Campaign for Public Rail Launched
As reported in the Observer we have launched All on Board, a campaign for everyone who wants to make our railways work better. For a full list of supporters click…
02 Jul, 2014
The market is failing public services. What’s the alternative?
“It is common knowledge among the lower ranks that the work we produce is only to enable Serco to be paid. Customer service is a secondary requirement…We soldier on in…
01 Jul, 2014
What can be worse than the election results?
The European and local election results were bad. The response to them from most of the Labour Party has been even worse. It feels as though the chances of getting…
29 Jun, 2014
Our Compass meeting was private. So why did the Sunday Times record it?
It was hardly Watergate. The head of Labour's policy review tips up at the Compass annual general meeting (I am the organisation's chair) and tells its members how he feels…
26 Jun, 2014
Huggers and Crushers: The Compass Gathering
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Gathering on Saturday - the feedback so far has included words like 'invigorating', fun' and someone said it was 'the…