A new project from Compass and Labour Together The Power Now Project is a collaboration between Compass and Labour Together, to explore the potential of ‘new power’.Over the past two…
18 Jul, 2022
Democracy
18 Mar, 2021
Constitutional reform must be led by people, not politicians
Everybody knows the UK’s political system is broken. Fixing our democracy can only be led by the citizens it exists to serve. That's why Compass has joined 17 other organisations…
17 Sep, 2020
Working differently within our current democratic structures
Grace Barnett’s recently published Compass paper, 'Democracy, Participation and Civil Society' contains wonderful examples of pioneers of the “cultural infrastructure for a new democratic settlement”, all with the aim to…
20 May, 2020
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? How kindness can drive an agile, creative, and deliberative democracy
'The feedback I’m receiving certainly reveals a positive local picture, one where statutory organisations, established and newly developed Voluntary and Community Sector organisations or groups, and the informal network of…
13 May, 2020
Reasons for hope: why and how we can #BuildBackBetter
The crisis reveals much and will change more - for good or bad. Everything feels like it is now up for grabs. There is much pain and suffering and our…
11 May, 2020
Democracy and the Coronavirus
Is an alert civil society an effective antidote to the cynical manipulation that mars contemporary democracy? Those of us who have argued that it is will soon face a stiff…
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…
05 Sep, 2019
Let’s transform our dying democratic system, now.
We have woken up to the UK’s biggest democratic and political crisis of modern times. Our Government is not serving our Parliament. Our democracy is not serving us, the people.…
05 Aug, 2019
We must build an imaginative and pragmatic alliance
A Remain Alliance is not the same as a Progressive Alliance. That’s what we said when we were asked for our view on the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and it’s…
15 Feb, 2019
“We need a way out of this mess”, say petition signatories
Our petition demanding a Citizens’ Assembly for Brexit has now reached 75k signatories and we’ve been looking at the comments to find out more about why this solution to the…
17 Dec, 2018
We need a Citizens’ Assembly to break the Brexit deadlock
Our politics and our parliament is in deadlock over Brexit. But if we choose to learn from other countries in how we resolve our differences, this could be a moment…
17 Oct, 2018
New publication: The Causes and Cures of Brexit
Two and a half years ago the UK saw the biggest democratic revolution of a generation. The vote for Brexit had been a long time coming. Millions of our fellow…