The pandemic has been a master class in systems thinking on a global, national and community level. Social renewal is vital. This will seem but a utopian distraction from urgent…
14 Aug, 2020
14 Aug, 2020
The pandemic has been a master class in systems thinking on a global, national and community level. Social renewal is vital. This will seem but a utopian distraction from urgent…
28 Jul, 2020
Ever been spoken over at work? Or excluded from a decision-making process because of arbitrary classifications of authority in the workplace? I have. It struck me as both annoying and…
15 Jul, 2020
The coronavirus crisis has made it heartbreakingly obvious that we are all connected. Boris Johnson himself, still recovering from the virus, felt the need to contradict Margaret Thatcher, saying ‘there…
14 Jul, 2020
The article was originally published at Vulnerability 360. Throughout the lockdown, and now an extended lockdown, in our home city, Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of…
29 Jun, 2020
The article originally appeared in Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’, a Compass publication edited by Phil Cohen. In his pamphlet 45˚ Change, Neal Lawson warns that ‘in all…
20 May, 2020
'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
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
Sometimes, when times seem unlike anything we have known before, we need to reach for ideas that are not new. The current crisis does not necessarily mean that we have to…
08 May, 2020
As the economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote, “there is no chance of the better society, unless the good and achievable society is clearly defined”. So, what makes a Good Society?…
07 May, 2020
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…
14 Apr, 2020
This article originally was originally published by the Labour Campaign for Human Rights (LCHR). The ongoing Covid crisis has brought the issue of so-called Social Rights into sharp relief. These rights…
10 Apr, 2020
This might seem a strange time to be promoting deliberation. A crisis requires speed and heightened attention, a laser-like focus on the problem. We need powerful, centralised institutions, authoritative networks…