Human rights are central to understanding – and arresting – the rise in right-wing populism. Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their fellow travellers gain strength from the poverty, inequality and…
12 Dec, 2016
12 Dec, 2016
Human rights are central to understanding – and arresting – the rise in right-wing populism. Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their fellow travellers gain strength from the poverty, inequality and…
03 Dec, 2016
I cannot have been alone in my reaction to last week's Autumn Budget announcements from Philip Hammond in which the government promises that underpinned the austerity agenda for the last six…
22 Oct, 2016
The left lives in two worlds at exactly the same time. In one world the left is in a grave existential crisis. This is the left of the 20th century.…
25 Aug, 2016
A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks Katie Cruz: Since you wrote The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries in 2011, the…
21 Aug, 2016
This article originally appeared on openDemocracy The question of Electoral Reform rears its head at every Westminster election. In order to design the best electoral system, we need to…
12 Aug, 2016
Mechanisation. Robots. The digital economy. The gig economy. The sharing economy. The world of work is changing but our creaky welfare system is still based on a 20th-century model of work, designed when soldiers…
05 Aug, 2016
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…
04 Aug, 2016
The post-Brexit era which we now find ourselves in has felt like a collective break-up, at least in the Remain camp. First came the shock, then the anger, the grief,…
24 Jul, 2016
Bus by Penny Pepper http://www.pennypepper.co.uk On the bus Boris bus dirty bumpy horrid bus. There’s a trolley in the crip space – see the child, snotty faced – bullish buggy…
27 May, 2016
Compass member Geoff Naylor asks how do we measure prosperity today? The great misfortune of present day life is that we have forgotten the purpose of work and become confused…
23 May, 2016
Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley discuss the growing demands for a UBI and how it could be introduced in the UK. You can read and download the full piece here or see below…
14 May, 2016
As a politician on the frontline, I was delighted to give a response to the Great British Class Survey at the LSE. Mike Savage’s work tells us about how Britain…