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…
07 May, 2025
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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…
26 Mar, 2025
Compass’ Response to the Spring Statement
Here is Compass' response to the Chancellor's Spring Statement, presented to parliament today: “These unprecedented cuts, impacting on the poorest people in our country, won’t just slow any economic recovery…
26 Mar, 2025
Spring Statement: ‘Rachel Reeves Must Remember What Labour Is Actually For’
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government. Who would want to be in Rachel Reeves’ shoes,…
24 Mar, 2025
Starmer must be brave, or he’s doomed
The 4th July 2024 was a special night for me. The poor coverage aside (the BBC really were missing Dimbleby, weren’t they?), it was a wonderful spectacle for a 33-year-old…
19 Mar, 2025
No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts – We Need a Wealth Tax Instead
Keir Starmer must change course from this performative cruelty towards the sick and disabled. When your pen hovered over the ballot paper on July the 4th last year, did you…