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…
13 May, 2020
Democracy
11 May, 2020
Deliberating with care for a caring democracy
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…
11 May, 2020
Democracy and the Coronavirus
Is an alert civil society an effective antidote to the cynical manipulation that mars contemporary democracy? Those of us who have argued that it is will soon face a stiff…
10 Apr, 2020
It can’t be that everything changes except how we practise politics
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…
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,…
11 Mar, 2020
It’s Bloody Complicated – A Compass Podcast
After huge set backs like Brexit and the last election, now is the time to find the space to think, talk and discuss what's gone wrong and how we put…
05 Aug, 2019
We must build an imaginative and pragmatic alliance
A Remain Alliance is not the same as a Progressive Alliance. That’s what we said when we were asked for our view on the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and it’s…
08 May, 2019
A Progressive Alliance for the 2019 European elections? Compass says no.
Several of our members and supporters have been in touch to ask whether Compass will take the lead in a ‘progressive alliance’ campaign for the European elections in the UK,…
19 Oct, 2018
A framework for understanding exploitative societies – Part 3
Part 2 showed how division is one of the major mechanisms holding exploitative forms of society in place, and how inequality and oppression function to produce division. Here, we look…
17 Oct, 2018
New publication: The Causes and Cures of Brexit
Two and a half years ago the UK saw the biggest democratic revolution of a generation. The vote for Brexit had been a long time coming. Millions of our fellow…
10 Oct, 2018
A framework for understanding exploitative societies – Part 2
Part 2: division and oppression Part 1 looked at how individual mistreatment can become self-perpetuating and evolve into structural oppression, and how punishment and blame lock this in place. Part…
02 Oct, 2018
Everyday democracy and Ecotricity: energy belongs to us all
Ecotricity was founded in 1996 when founder Dale Vince brought renewable energy to the supply grid off his own back. Having been a self-sufficient man and what he describes as…