If someone tried to persuade you to exchange your new laptop for a Sinclair computer or your electric car for a Morris Minor, you’d give them short shrift. Their argument,…
25 Oct, 2023
25 Oct, 2023
If someone tried to persuade you to exchange your new laptop for a Sinclair computer or your electric car for a Morris Minor, you’d give them short shrift. Their argument,…
11 Aug, 2023
The Ghent system isn’t likely to be a concept many people are familiar with - at least certainly not in Britain. Yet while this seemingly obscure policy implementation is not…
20 Jul, 2023
As I write this I’m working from Selby. Selby is my hometown; my mum still lives here. I’m writing this on by-election day, and, as you may have heard, Selby…
04 Jul, 2023
This 5th July marks the NHS’s 75th anniversary. But while there’s much to celebrate about this amazing institution, there’s something else we must do as we arrive at this important…
20 Dec, 2022
It is unlikely that you will find anyone who disagrees that the premiership of Liz Truss was a turbulent affair. As a lived experience, it was a mess bereft of…
31 Oct, 2022
The Scavenger Mindset: Rethinking Leadership to unlock the untapped talent within, A new book by Clare Richmond, calls for leaders to shake off outdated leadership styles and seek instead a more…
23 Sep, 2022
Excessive Inequality and wealth redistribution to the rich have wrecked the economy. 'Trussonomics' won't help. Our new prime minister has already set out her primary economic principles. Although a £90bn…
07 Apr, 2022
Aaron Sahr offers a rich discourse on the huge growth of financial markets in modern economies and the implication for inequality. We face a ‘trinity of growing private wealth, mounting…
28 Jul, 2021
If we want to build a better future, where do we start? In 1925, John Maynard Keynes shared his answer to that question in a letter to the British journalist…
16 Mar, 2021
Compass and Labour Together are launching a new project to explore how new and old forms of power can work together – a progressive operating system for the 21st century.…
14 Oct, 2020
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone, not least local government. Many councils have struggled to cope with the fallout from the virus, while others, like Barking & Dagenham, have managed…
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…