Compass is a growing organisation, with a network of local groups, and is looking for someone to help get these groups election-ready while strengthening our relationships across the progressive political…
31 Jul, 2026
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17 Jul, 2026
Compass Statement on Andy Burnham’s election as Leader of the Labour Party
Today, Labour has been given a lifeline. Andy Burnham’s election as Leader of the Labour Party marks the beginning– not the end– of the party’s long journey to a new…
21 Jul, 2026
Super Profits and Mass Evictions
On the St. James estate in South Bermondsey, 172 households face unaffordable rent rises - de-facto eviction notices. 50 households have received actual Section 21 no-fault eviction notices; most were…
13 Jul, 2026
The Case for Citizen-Led Electoral Reform
Andy Burnham is right to back proportional representation, and right not to tie it to another referendum. But he should go further. A national commission on electoral reform would be…
09 Jul, 2026
Telling a Radical Story about the Future of Britain: Is Andy Burnham Labour’s Last Chance?
Andy Burnham is heading to Downing Street as the eighth Labour PM in history and the seventh UK PM in a decade. Labour do not historically move against and dislodge…
02 Jul, 2026
How To Reform the Social Care Sector
Introduction: Navigating a Systemic Crisis Adult social care in England is in a deep and longstanding crisis. Years of underfunding, including a £7 billion reduction in local authority budgets since…
30 Jun, 2026
Why Electoral Reform and UK-EU Rapprochement Go Hand-in-Hand
The incoming prime minister should treat electoral reform not as a separate constitutional project, but as the precondition for any lasting settlement with Europe A decade after the UK public…
26 Jun, 2026
The Mandate That Never Was
This week, almost exactly ten years after the Brexit referendum, Keir Starmer announced his resignation. Andy Burnham, who has spoken before about wanting to scrap First Past the Post and…
25 Jun, 2026
From Crisis to Care: A Blueprint for Adult Social Care Reform
Contributed by End Social Care Disgrace: Campaign for a National Care, Support and Independent Living Service Introduction: Navigating a Systemic Crisis Adult social care in England is in a deep…
19 Jun, 2026
Compass Statement on Makerfield By-election
Today we feel that rare emotion for progressives: the lure of hope. This is an exciting, tantalising, and daunting moment; not just for us at Compass, not just for all…
05 Jun, 2026
Reflections on Change: NOW!
Steve Lancashire Generally, I came away feeling energised, having learned new things and briefly talking to people I hadn't met before. I'd read Gary Stevenson's book when it first came…
24 May, 2026
Greens for Proportional Representation in Makerfield
Never again will Green candidates roll over for Labour in the national interest and get nothing back. With the Greens often out-polling Labour nationally, beating them in Gorton and Denton…