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…
06 Oct, 2025
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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…
07 Sep, 2025
Today we launched Mainstream. Here’s why.
In the 22 years since it was founded, there has never been a more important moment in the life of Compass. That's not just due to climate and ecological chaos,…
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…
07 May, 2025
‘We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of Two Party Politics’
UK politics is approaching a tipping point where the failing duopoly that has governed Britain for many decades finally comes to an end. UK politics has been slowly but steadily…
02 May, 2025
Fragmentation and Farageism – Time for New Direction
There is nothing inevitable about the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Brits are not naturally predisposed towards national populism and all the divisions that come with it. Parties…
07 May, 2025
‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
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…
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…
07 Mar, 2025
Anneliese Dodds’s Principled Resignation Should Be a Warning for Keir Starmer
The International Development Secretary’s departure was overshadowed by world events this week, but it risks having a much longer lasting impact on the Government’s fortunes. Despite the global implications of…
20 Mar, 2024
Scotland’s centre-left politics and the dynamics of the Labour-SNP divide
UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism 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…