The 4th July 2024 was a special night for me. The poor coverage aside (the BBC really were missing Dimbleby, weren’t they?), it was a wonderful spectacle for a 33-year-old…
24 Mar, 2025
Social Security
11 Aug, 2023
The Ghent System – A remedy for Britain’s social and economic tensions?
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…
23 Sep, 2022
Liz Truss is returning to the fairytale economics of the 1980s
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
Book Review “Keystroke Capitalism: How Banks Create Money for the Few” by Aaron Sahr
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
We can build a good society – but first we have to ask the right questions
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…
15 Feb, 2021
Sticking plaster or open-heart surgery? Time to create a good society
Friday 5th February saw the official launch of Poverty (2nd ed.) by Ruth Lister, member of the House of Lords and vice-chair of Compass (the first edition was published in 2004). The event was…
07 May, 2020
Insecurity at the top can create security for all
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
Social Rights in Post-Covid Britain
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…
16 Mar, 2020
The Politics of a Pandemic
A crisis like no other It is now clear that we face a global health emergency as a result of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. The evolving pandemic,…
25 Apr, 2019
Realising the Good Society: a pulse check
Following the lively panel and open space session at our recent conference Leaving the 20th Century, we’d like to start a conversation with our members and supporters about how we…
18 Mar, 2019
Basic Income for All: the closest thing to a silver bullet
There is no single silver bullet policy to create a Good Society – but basic income is the closest there is. It opens up some big questions: what is a good…
24 Nov, 2017
How do we make a Good London?
Our Good London project sets out a bold vision for a better city. The project brought together citizens from all across London, to discuss, decide and determine the shape of…