Now, more than ever, the Labour Party needs mediation skills at all levels of the party. Recently mediation offers from the trade unions have been spurned. Hopefully there will be…
17 Aug, 2016
Democracy
12 Aug, 2016
The SNP, Centre-Left Politics and the State of Social Democracy
One party stands head and shoulders above all others in Scotland - namely, the Scottish National Party. It has got there through its own efforts, hard work and virtues, along…
11 Aug, 2016
Dear SNP
One of a series of letters from the Chair of Compass to the members of each of Britain's progressive parties, originally published on openDemocracy 31 May. Dear SNP,…
10 Aug, 2016
Our Politics is In Flames: Why Proportional Represtation Must Rise From the Ashes
Finished screaming into your pillow yet? No, didn’t think so. It’s not a bad dream, you’re not hallucinating, this isn’t the proverbial hangover from hell…it’s really happening; the red button…
09 Aug, 2016
Cleaning up the mess
"They were careless. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let…
05 Aug, 2016
The Confession
Identity is a slippery fish. I came of age during what now, looking back at it, seems a high-water mark in the story of British Multiculturalism. It was a moment…
01 Aug, 2016
Dear Labour
Dear Labour, B.B. (Before Brexit), I started writing constructively critical letters to other progressive parties; the Greens, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats. You can find them here. The reason…
01 Jul, 2016
Labouring on? It’s time to leap
“short term hopes are futile, long term resignation is futile” Hans Magnus Enzenberger For Labour this is not really about Brexit or Jeremy, they are respectively just the trip wires…
19 Jul, 2016
Brighton & Hove Compass report – What next?
What Next? Progressive Politics in Post-Brexit Britain A Brighton & Hove Compass Get Together Report. July 2016 About Brighton & Hove Compass Compass is the home for everyone who wants to…
15 Jul, 2016
Aftershocks of Brexit & building alliances
The aftershocks of Brexit keep coming. The leavers leave, resignations abound, a new Prime Minister and another Labour leadership election – the second in a year. And this is just…
25 Jul, 2016
Guidelines to organising local, regional or national alliance building events
Organising Local, regional or national post-Brexit alliance building events This is just the first step - we are working on a more detailed organising toolkit and online platforms for discussion…
14 Jul, 2016
North and South: bury our differences and build a progressive alliance for social justice and a Federal Britain
Is London the problem? It’s almost de rigeur among Northern regionalists to see ‘London’ as the problem – our great enemy, oppressor and cause of all our woes. Let’s be…