Compass Articles

Dear Progress, Like me I know this short missive does not find you well. Our once great party is in a mess and is not showing sufficient signs of knowing it, let alone doing something about it. But why should anyone at Progress listen to anything from someone at...

The next Labour leader should see it as their duty to create the space to encourage real debate It used to be said of the American Democrats that, in the aftermath of their repeated electoral drubbings in the 1980s, the party’s response was to form a circular firing...

‘Marketisation’ has become the main slogan driving public policy towards many public services from hospitals to prisons, from nursery schools to care homes for the elderly. The public is invited to welcome the introduction of markets as the advent of freedom of...

Machine politics has had its day, Chuka Umunna tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Labour must ‘kick machine politics out of the party’, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has argued. In a passionate defence of Ed Miliband’s party reform plans, the shadow...