As progressives, our mission is to create a path out of our deep political and democratic crisis, built with meaningful hope. However, our progressive movement keeps failing to build from…
20 Aug, 2019
Compass
15 Apr, 2019
New thinking on political change: Common Platforms and 45º Change
Ever since the 2017 general election, when we ran the Progressive Alliance campaign and Britain narrowly missed out on the prospect of a progressive coalition government, we have been thinking…
02 Apr, 2019
AGM information for members
Our annual general meeting (AGM) - where members decide about Compass' future - takes place on Saturday 6th April from 3.30pm at Mary Ward House in London. As a member…
18 Mar, 2019
Basic Income for All: the closest thing to a silver bullet
There is no single silver bullet policy to create a Good Society – but basic income is the closest there is. It opens up some big questions: what is a good…
19 Oct, 2018
A framework for understanding exploitative societies – Part 3
Part 2 showed how division is one of the major mechanisms holding exploitative forms of society in place, and how inequality and oppression function to produce division. Here, we look…
08 Feb, 2017
Debunking the Democracy Myth
Democracy occupies a special place in our hearts. Conceived in Ancient Greece, debated over in the Magna Carta and fought over in the English Civil Wars; the right of the…
02 Mar, 2015
Permanent Engagement – Creating a common realm for the common good
I spent 25 years in the Public Relations industry and have just published Trust Me, PR Is Dead. PR doesn’t work any more. It has been strangled by many forces,…
23 Jan, 2015
Why I’m Optimistic About Democracy, But Less So About Politics
Uffe Elbaek is a Danish MP, former minister of culture and initiator of the entrepreneurial green party The Alternativet A little more than two years ago, I resigned from my…