Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea but has recently gained some credence, with interest in possible pilot studies shown by the Scottish national government and one UK…
17 Aug, 2020
Inequality
13 May, 2020
Reasons for hope: why and how we can #BuildBackBetter
The crisis reveals much and will change more - for good or bad. Everything feels like it is now up for grabs. There is much pain and suffering and our…
07 May, 2020
Insecurity at the top can create security for all
In September, Compass will be co-launching a report analysing what over 100 interviews tell us about the attitudes and civic and political behaviour of the top 10 per cent highest…
10 Oct, 2018
A framework for understanding exploitative societies – Part 2
Part 2: division and oppression Part 1 looked at how individual mistreatment can become self-perpetuating and evolve into structural oppression, and how punishment and blame lock this in place. Part…
16 Nov, 2017
“Against Meritocracy”: why meritocracy won’t save us
The Paradise Papers has exposed the labyrinthine routes through which the wealthy secure trickle-up economics. The super-rich have supersized their wealth by investing 300 billion pounds of UK GDP in…
07 Oct, 2014
London: the greatest city in the world at what? And for whom?
“It was never my intention to nibble around the edges with policies of timid maintenance; I ran to take dead aim at the crisis of our time” said New York…