A personal perspective from Ken Spours. Factionalism, division and failure Political factionalism invariably leads to failure. Even when you think you’ve won the political party you are losing the political…
24 Sep, 2025
Jeremy Corbyn
18 Sep, 2025
‘There Is Still Time to Save the Labour Party From Itself and Forge a New Political Mainstream’
Keir Starmer is presiding over the decline of social democracy in Britain, but an alternative path is still possible. What we are witnessing in real time this week and will…
10 Sep, 2025
How Can the ‘Good Society’ Actually Happen?
The UK is now stumbling headlong toward disaster in the guise of a Reform UK single party administration with Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, wielding virtually unfettered power, backed by…
02 Sep, 2025
Compass Statement on Zack Polanski’s Election as Leader of the Green Party
Compass congratulates Zack Polanski on being elected leader of the Green Party. Winning by five to one against effective opponents shows the appetite for change and great radicalism in the…
30 Jul, 2025
Compass Statement on the New Left Party
Enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new left party reflects the long-held view of Compass that UK politics would, at some stage, dramatically fragment. That's why we broke free…
25 Jul, 2025
The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really Break the Duopoly?
There are huge barriers to creating new parties of the left, but it just might be possible. The Labour Party? You can't live with it and you can't live without…
20 Jun, 2025
‘Labour Apart: How Morgan McSweeney Levered the Left Out of Power’
The story of how Keir Starmer’s chief adviser hoodwinked Labour party members tells us a lot about how power really works. The book Get In, about Keir Starmer’s rise to…
24 Oct, 2022
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
23 Oct, 2019
We live with crisis but hope is everywhere around us
At Compass we always believe the best in people. It’s the political system that is failing all of us. Despite the crisis, up and down the country we see examples…