A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin. Last week’s Spring Statement decision to cut the benefits of the weakest…
15 Apr, 2025
Keir Starmer
26 Mar, 2025
Spring Statement: ‘Rachel Reeves Must Remember What Labour Is Actually For’
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government. Who would want to be in Rachel Reeves’ shoes,…
17 Mar, 2025
Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the Myth of Liberal ‘Returnism’
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to “normal” they risk a very rude awakening. Every so often an esteemed liberal…
04 Oct, 2023
The speech Keir Starmer should give at Labour conference
‘Conference – We come, hopefully, to the end of this Conservative government, marked by thirteen years of cruel austerity cuts, greed and cronyism, moral indifference, climate neglect and economic failure.…
13 Jul, 2023
Labour parading its intolerance as a badge of honour should concern us all
A few weeks ago, Neal Lawson came to speak at the launch of Lewes Compass. Like many, if not most Labour members, he is in favour of working together with…
23 Jun, 2023
The Tories and democracy are in crisis – but can Tory Britain be defeated?
Never have we lived in such an age of political challenges in which the leaders on offer are so inadequate and incapable - or even worse, deceivers, serial liars and…
04 Apr, 2023
Small targets, big goals: Three lessons in alliance-building for Keir Starmer
Today marks three years of Keir Starmer’s leadership of Labour, three of the most turbulent years in UK politics. We’ve been rocked by a pandemic, corruption, wildly oscillating polls and…
24 Mar, 2023
Can the next Labour Government succeed in changing Britain?
If the current contours of UK politics continue, next year will see the election of a Labour Government. Keir Starmer will become Labour’s seventh Prime Minister, and a long overdue…
19 Jan, 2023
Six reasons why Labour might not win the next election alone
If popular wisdom is to be believed, Labour are set to dominate at the next general election. The wind appears to have changed: Starmer is visibly more confident in public…
19 Oct, 2022
Clive Lewis MP: From 2022 Labour Party Conference
This is a transcription of a speech Clive Lewis MP gave on the 26th September 2022 at the Win As One event at Labour Party Conference. You can watch a…
01 Apr, 2021
A Year of Keir: The Road Not Yet Travelled
On the anniversary of Keir Starmer's election as Labour leader, Compass reflects on opportunities missed – and the radical, plural politics Labour needs to help deliver the Good Society. If…
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…