The drive for devolution of greater powers from Westminster to the regions implies complementary measures to be taken within regions. The more detailed levels of action are barely mentioned in…
14 Oct, 2026
Labour
09 Oct, 2026
Compass Statement on the Holborn & St. Pancras By-Election
Labour have comfortably held the Holborn and St. Pancras' seat in the by-election triggered by Keir Starmer’s resignation. This is not, despite what some commentators or party organisers say, the…
06 Oct, 2026
What Andy Burnham’s First Two Months in Office Tells Us About Britain’s Two-Party System
The past decade of party politics in Britain has been nothing but turbulent. The salience of Brexit, technology, globalisation, education, and immigration has completely reshaped partisan identification, while the dominant…
29 Sep, 2026
Compass Statement on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Speech to Labour Conference
Today, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a National Commission for Electoral Reform and a manifesto commitment to change our electoral system in the next Parliament. He has also committed…
23 Sep, 2026
A Suggestion for the New PM: The Political Economy of Egalitarian Liberty
Neoliberalism was ‘forty years of elite failure’. During that period the financial sector largely became ‘a rent-extraction machine’, which ‘wastes both human and real resources’, and the ‘delicate balance between…
09 Jul, 2026
Telling a Radical Story about the Future of Britain: Is Andy Burnham Labour’s Last Chance?
Andy Burnham is heading to Downing Street as the eighth Labour PM in history and the seventh UK PM in a decade. Labour do not historically move against and dislodge…
27 Mar, 2026
Lessons from Down Under
Pasokification is a real thing. All across liberal democracies we have seen the erosion in support for the traditional centre-left, social democratic parties - be that PASOK in Greece, Parti…
23 Mar, 2026
Who Does the Nominating?
Boss Tweed, the infamous leader of New York’s Tammany Hall Democratic Party machine in the mid-1800s, once said; “I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get…
26 Jan, 2026
Our view on Andy Burnham
Politics now moves at a furious pace. It does so because the foundations beneath our feet, economically, ecologically, socially and technologically, keep shifting. As progressives who want a much more…
22 Dec, 2025
Tackling Child Poverty: A First Step
Let’s start with the unquestionably good news before we get to the ‘buts’. Our Children, Our Future represents the first UK wide child poverty strategy since the last Labour government.…
16 Dec, 2025
Is Now Really The Time to Re-Engage with Blue Labour?
Labour Britain is falling apart in front of our eyes. The Starmer government has not only failed to articulate a vision; it has allied itself with big money rather than…
12 Dec, 2025
Budget 2025: ‘Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme’
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…