After more than three years of powering Basic Income Conversation, Compass is no longer the host organisation. The Conversation is entering a new era, with the project finding a new…
16 Jun, 2023
Universal Basic Income
13 Feb, 2023
Geoff Crocker’s book review of Martin Wolf’s ‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’
This book review was originally posted of ubi.org here. Martin Wolf is right. Capitalism is delivering rampant inequality, leading democracy to generate populist demagogues appealing to economically excluded voters. Wolf’s…
27 May, 2022
A modest basic income could cut poverty to lowest level in 60 years
Read the report A new universal basic income model could cut poverty by more than half, reducing it to its lowest level for 60 years. This fiscally neutral scheme involves…
25 Apr, 2022
Basic Income Month — Our crowdfunded basic income pilot
In 2021 we crowdfunded a basic income pilot. Working with the London Solidarity Funds we ran the Basic Income Month, funding £50 payments to 71 people.
24 Mar, 2022
Sunak won’t tackle the cost of living crisis. A basic income can.
Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this government’s spring budget. With living standards set for the largest single-year fall since records began in the mid 1950s, the government will oversee a 5% fall…
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…
16 Feb, 2022
Details of the Welsh basic income pilot announced
In this blog Co-Founder of the Basic Income Conversation Cleo Goodman looks at the details of the Welsh basic income pilot released today. Today details of the Welsh basic income pilot have…
17 Aug, 2020
Universal Basic Income & Universal Basic Services: How can we bring them together?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea but has recently gained some credence, with interest in possible pilot studies shown by the Scottish national government and one UK…
13 May, 2020
Reasons for hope: why and how we can #BuildBackBetter
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…
08 Apr, 2020
Crisis Conversations: Learning as We Go for Long Term Transition
This article originally appeared on the Rapid Transition Alliance website. We are now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest and most sudden global upheavals for…
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…