A time of possibility The last week has played havoc with our emotions. A time of relief, a sense of possibility and an opportunity to seize. There’s much work to…
09 Nov, 2020
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How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
21 Oct, 2020
Introducing…Build Back Better: HOW?
Occasionally, everyone seems to alight on the same slogan - and it takes off. The energy, the alliteration, the sense of optimism and determination of Build Back Better has seen…
21 Oct, 2020
Change: It’s a piece of CAKE
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change. Miles Davis 'Nobody has all the answers but all of…
20 Oct, 2020
How the system hurts UK democracy
Shortly after the UK general election of December 2019 I wrote a policy article for the spring 2020 edition of Global Discourse, setting out what my involvement in politics has taught…
14 Oct, 2020
Responding, building and transforming collaboratively in Barking and Dagenham
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone, not least local government. Many councils have struggled to cope with the fallout from the virus, while others, like Barking & Dagenham, have managed…
30 Sep, 2020
Local Groups: Spotlight on Devon
Compass Local Groups are a big way of empowering our membership to take our ideas and campaigns into their communities, and in turn they shape our national programme. They create…
02 Oct, 2020
What does it mean to be a progressive?
“Progressive” is a word that we use a lot at Compass to describe who we are and what we stand for. But it is an especially ambitious term and perhaps…
30 Sep, 2020
How can we Build Back Better in Manchester?
On the 27th of August, we at Compass Manchester hosted an event on Zoom for people near and around Greater Manchester to discuss and share ideas about what Build Back…
24 Sep, 2020
COVID-19 and the crisis of care
The coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world: it is also a crisis…
21 Sep, 2020
Who ever thought it was going to be easy
As Labour’s replacement for a party conference ‘Labour Connected’ meets online, Mark Perryman reflects on what’s Left of Keir Starmer. ‘Labour is haemorrhaging Left-wing activists. Will it survive?’ This was…
17 Sep, 2020
Working differently within our current democratic structures
Grace Barnett’s recently published Compass paper, 'Democracy, Participation and Civil Society' contains wonderful examples of pioneers of the “cultural infrastructure for a new democratic settlement”, all with the aim to…
10 Sep, 2020
What comes after Richard Leonard for Scottish Labour? Time for an Independent Labour Party
Scottish Labour once seemed to have an ironclad grip on Scottish politics, winning election after election, and seeing off opponents whether it was Tories, SNP or the occasional Lib Dem.…