The seeds of the Government’s current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago. “This pudding has no theme” was a Churchillism that could be applied to budgets…
12 Dec, 2025
Keir Starmer
09 Oct, 2025
John Denham – Compass Labour Conference Event Speech – 29th September 2025
This address was given by John Denham at Compass' 2025 Labour Party Conference event, 'RESET: Winning a Decade of National Renewal' on 29th September 2025. Also on the panel was…
06 Oct, 2025
Labour’s Deputy Leadership Election is a Battle for Democracy
We can’t let this be a one-term government. “If there was an election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”. That’s the question we’re told to ask voters on the…
24 Sep, 2025
The New Mainstream: Radical realism to unite a fractured Labour Party and a divided nation
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…
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…
29 Aug, 2025
‘Time to Reshuffle the Labour Left’
This is an extract of Neal Lawson's essay which appears in 'The Starmer Symptom', edited by Mark Perryman. Other contributors include Clive Lewis, Danny Dorling, Emma Burnell, Gargi Bhattacharyya, James…
11 Aug, 2025
‘A Government That Crushes Dissent and Eliminates Hope Will Never Prosper’
The authoritarian impulse to eliminate disagreement and dampen hope will only push voters towards the extremes. Apparently if you’re awful enough to cut the legs off one side of a…
16 Jul, 2025
We’re Calling to Reinstate the Four Suspended Labour MPs
The decision to suspend the whip from four MPs and trade envoy roles from a further three for opposing cuts to welfare payments for disabled people is wrong. We call…
14 Jul, 2025
‘Progressives Must Unite Against Nigel Farage and National Populism or Reform Will Win’
The series of numbers that really matter in UK politics right now. What do this sequence of numbers represent and do they matter: 4, 5, 6, 9, 72,121 and 411?…
07 Jul, 2025
‘Keir Starmer Is Out of His Depth and Out of His Time’
The Prime Minister’s recent troubles expose how badly our political leaders have lost touch with the shifting demands of the modern era. It’s hard in modern politics not to think…
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…