Until we reconnect power with politics, nativism will prevail
News of Labour’s plan to make use of the Union Flag in an attempt to rebrand was met…
Compass
Keir Starmer urged to back radical constitutional reforms by new report
Keir Starmer has been urged by a new Labour report to back radical constitutional reforms including major devolution,…
Compass: We need alliances to break through our outdated electoral system
This weekend marks an electoral anniversary none of us will be celebrating. Labour – and indeed all progressives…
UK Labour must reinvent itself. Local councils have already started
Labour must reinvent itself as a party of opposition. Foundations are already being laid nationally. In this, the…
Ed Miliband reveals himself to be a “sympathiser” of universal basic income
Ed Miliband has described himself as a “sympathiser” of universal basic income and backed proposals to pilot the…
Report by former Ian Lavery aide backs “progressive pragmatism” to defeat Tories
Centre-left pressure group Compass has released a report today by a former Ian Lavery aide who makes the…
Labour cannot afford to be outflanked on universal basic income
The Financial Times published a letter last week, signed by 110 MPs and peers, calling for a ‘recovery…
Labour needs a politics of earning and belonging
“This is the dawn of a new era,” declared Boris Johnson an hour before Brexit. He has exploited…
Labour is at war with itself. What’s needed? The soft left
The ground beneath us keeps moving so fast, we can’t keep up. It won’t stop. This fluidity is…
Despite its moral and policy challenges to Labour, the idea of basic income grows
The parliamentary backwards-and-forwards over Brexit conceals two realities: what caused Brexit and what is happening now in our…
