After the founding conference of what is now officially named Your Party, Compass is reaffirming its commitment to working with, alongside and through people who are members of all progressive…
15 Dec, 2025
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12 Dec, 2025
Budget 2025: ‘Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme’
The seeds of the Government’s current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago. “This pudding has no theme” was a Churchillism that could be applied to budgets…
01 Dec, 2025
Green Party Rising
It feels an awful long time ago, but let's begin by casting our minds back to the last General Election (which was in fact just 16 months ago!). It was…
27 Nov, 2025
Bond Markets 101: What Should Progressives Do About the Economy?
The notion that the Government is only held back by an irrational and faint-hearted fear of the bond market is appealing but wrong. It views market power as a choice…
25 Nov, 2025
Compass Statement on Labour’s Asylum Policy
As a country we need to talk about the scale and speed of change in our communities. We need a conversation about integration and community cohesion. We need to discuss…
21 Nov, 2025
How Communities Build Power (Literally)
Maybe cinematic political documentaries are a bit like buses: you wait ages for one and then two come along at once. Released at the end of 2025, Orwell: 2+2=5 (dir.…
18 Nov, 2025
Compass AGM 2025
On Saturday the 15th of November over a hundred Compass members, supporters and Local Group activists descended on Central London for our Annual General Meeting and a full-day conference, Charting…
17 Nov, 2025
Take a deep breath and delay the Sussex mayoral election
A murmur is growing into a roar as a growing coalition of different interest groups across Sussex call for a delay to the mayoral elections otherwise planned for May 2026. Local councillors have raised…
07 Nov, 2025
‘How to Stop Labour’s Autumn of Discontent Turning Into Farage’s Winter of Despair’
Keir Starmer’s Government must learn the lessons of history, or risk paving the way for an authoritarian future under Nigel Farage and Reform. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does…
29 Oct, 2025
Populism, Racism and Loose Language: How Should We Talk About Reform?
When Keir Starmer attacked Nigel Farage as a ‘racist’ some of us worried that the tactics were crass and potentially counter-productive by seeming to insult the values and intelligence of…
23 Oct, 2025
Compass Board Meeting Oct 14 Summary
The Compass Board met on October 14th for a hybrid meeting focused on governance, strategy, and the organisation’s evolving relationship with the “Mainstream” project. Chaired by Shelagh, the session brought…
14 Oct, 2025
Nadia Whittome MP – Compass Labour Conference Event Speech – 29th September 2025
There is this deep sense that life in the UK has been getting significantly worse in so many different ways and this shows no sign of stopping. People are working…