Compass Articles

'Are there gaps in our “pyramid of engagement”?’ ‘How do we “reuse the wheel”?’ ‘Can we be “digital by default”?’ These were the questions circulating somewhere in the ether above a crowded room of thinktankers gathered together on the initiative of Social Market...

Shadow home affairs minister Gloria de Piero kicked off the Progress annual conference breakout debate, Doorstep challenge: Can we win on crime and immigration?, focusing on antisocial behaviour. She said that the government was turning the clock back. In the most...

Greater transparency is part of the zeitgeist of the political era, as different layers of government rush to publish what they spend, and even the prime minister’s private text messages are revealed to the world at large. Thinktanks are no exception to the prevailing...

But for the hashtag, it could have been 2001. Left-wingers of varying hues, from the faintest hint of ochre to the deepest shade of red, congregated to predict a better – if pleasingly non-specific – future, to mutter darkly about triangulation and surrendering the...