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16 May, 2025
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13 May, 2025
‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right. Ok let's…
12 May, 2025
Keir Starmer Offers a Reform-lite Virtue Signalling Around Immigration
By any metric the political hard-right in the UK can claim a certain degree of success over the past 10 years, firstly by forcing an EU membership referendum, then winning…
09 May, 2025
How to Win Back Reform Voters
During regular canvassing in my Oxfordshire constituency of Didcot and Wantage, including for May 1st’s county council elections, it became increasingly common to encounter voters who are open about their…
07 May, 2025
‘We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of Two Party Politics’
UK politics is approaching a tipping point where the failing duopoly that has governed Britain for many decades finally comes to an end. UK politics has been slowly but steadily…
02 May, 2025
Fragmentation and Farageism – Time for New Direction
There is nothing inevitable about the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Brits are not naturally predisposed towards national populism and all the divisions that come with it. Parties…
30 Apr, 2025
The Truth about Community Values
It has become increasingly common to hear calls for politicians to respect the values of communities and come up with policies that fit with them. But what are those values?…
22 Apr, 2025
Speech to Oxfordshire Compass – 12th April 2025
This post was first given as a speech to members of Oxfordshire Compass by Compass Director, Neal Lawson on 12th April 2025. Winning office is never enough, we have to…
07 May, 2025
‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin. Last week’s Spring Statement decision to cut the benefits of the weakest…
08 Apr, 2025
Compass Board Meeting – 24th March 2025
Here are the notes from the Compass Board Meeting on the 24th March 2025. The meeting covered wide-ranging updates and discussions from all areas of Compass' work. Key points included the…
04 Apr, 2025
Imagining…
It’s Friday morning, the second reading of Clive Lewis’s Water Bill on Parliament Live TV. I hear Clive say that we need to be able ‘to imagine a better way.’…
28 Mar, 2025
Open Letter: Our Water, Our Way
Dear Steve Reed OBE MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Emma Hardy MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding), Your government promised…