In this new blog, Councillor Karen Constantine highlights the historic injustice of forced adoptions in the UK. Read below: www.compassonline.org.uk/the-weight-o...

The Labour council in Lewisham has passed a motion including special administration and nationalisation as solution to Thames Water's crisis. The Government must realise that people won't stand for private companies failing to run our public services. Public ownership is needed now.

You can now read John Denham's (@jydenham.bsky.social) full remarks from our 2025 Labour Conference panel on our website👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/john-denham-...

Privatised water companies are putting your bills up AGAIN. As if the already agreed £104bn in rises by 2030 wasn't enough, companies have asked for up to 18% more in your bills. Public ownership is the only option. The arguments against are drying up.

8PM TONIGHT! Author of our paper, 'The Temper Trap: How Proportional Representation Tames the Populist-Right', Stuart Donald will be discussing all things tackling the far-right on @scottishindypod.bsky.social! Tune in below👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3X...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5CmA... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THIS WEEK'S EPISODE YET? On the back of Labour Party Conference, our Director Neal Lawson digs into what's next for a Labour Party seemingly in the wilderness - joined by @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social MP and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

It was a real privilege to take part in this podcast with @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social - an excellent discussion of Labour's current predicaments. www.compassonline.org.uk/podcast/upco...

Labour's Deputy Leadership election isn't a battle for the party's soul - it's a battle for democracy, writes Ash Taylor and Minesh Parekh. www.compassonline.org.uk/labours-depu...

We're hiring! Compass is looking to recruit a Political and Campaigns Organiser as we enter an exciting new period for UK politics. Learn more and apply here: apply.workable.com/compass-14/j...

Thank you to everyone who attended our event at @greenparty.org.uk Conference: Greens Roots, Shared Ground? In case you missed it, here are the highlights. 🧵 #GreensConference #Greens25

We're hiring! Compass is looking to recruit a Political and Campaigns Organiser as we enter an exciting new period for UK politics. Learn more and apply here: apply.workable.com/compass-14/j...

The Compass team is at the Green Party Conference today! We’re so glad to see that our water is a major focus for the Greens. Excited to work with them to push for public ownership! @greenparty.org.uk @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Ahead of @greenparty.org.uk Conference, member @greenmarykm.bsky.social sets out her hopes and fears for where the party is currently at. Read it now👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/green-party-...

Should your boss be paid 431 times more than you? There is a simple, evidence-based step to tackle extreme inequality and promote a fairer economy: a 10:1 pay ratio. Add your voice to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it... @equalitytrust.bsky.social @highpaycentre.bsky.social

Come join us at @greenparty.org.uk Conference today! In a time when five parties are polling at over 10%, the Greens are in a defining moment - so how can pluralism work in this fragmented system? 2:30pm - Clifton Suite, Hermitage Hotel!

20 years on from the passing of Robin Cook, I delivered the Robin Cook Memorial Lecture. You can read the published version of my speech here. www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...

A step in the right direction, but nothing less than the total abolition of the limit will suffice. This is what the Mainstream of the Party and the country want. If it just becomes a ‘three-child benefit limit’, millions of children will keep suffering. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Thanks to @compassoffice.bsky.social for having me last night, speaking alongside @jydenham.bsky.social & @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social on why I think Labour needs the moral courage to do things simply because they’re the right thing to do, and how we should embrace the broad church.

Thank you to everyone who came to our panel event at Labour Conference last evening. It was fantastic to see the room so packed, and the mood so inspired. Here are some of the highlights of the event, in case you missed them. 🧵

Our Labour Conference event is starting soon at the Liverpool Hilton Hotel, Albert Room 4. Last chance to join us!

Headed to Labour Conference? Watching from the comfort of the sofa? Mark Perryman has his top ten reads for YOU to understand this year's Labour Conference better. Read it here👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/ten-reads-to...

You can now watch 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture on Youtube, delivered by Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social). Robin was a fierce friend to Compass and a torchbearer for the human, alliance-based, radical social democracy that we need so desperately today. youtu.be/uB7wXawsgaU

This MASSIVE MRP (13k people polled!) lays bare the intrinsic issue with FPTP. Reform would be on course the form a government with just 27% of the vote. The democratic deficit is huge. The case for PR has never been clearer.

🌹Labour can afford to end the two-child benefit limit. But we can't afford for children to go hungry. 📢 Delegates to #Lab25: back 'Supporting Families' in the Priorities Ballot to secure a motion on ending the two-child benefit limit.

LABOUR CONFERENCE PANEL Please join us for our panel at Labour Conference! We will be joined by three extraordinary figures from the Labour movement - @andyburnham.bsky.social, @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social and @jydenham.bsky.social. Monday 29th September - 7-8:30pm - Albert 4 Room, Hilton Hotel.

The launch of Mainstream couldn't have arrived at a more vital juncture. In a new piece, Ken Spours outlines the hope that the new group offers and a personal perspective on the direction it should take. www.compassonline.org.uk/the-new-main...

PODCAST OUT NOW! At a time of major turbulence for the Labour Government, and with their 2025 Party Conference coming this week, Compass Director Neal Lawson sits down with Mark Perryman to discuss his new book, 'The Starmer Symptom'. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Last night, Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social) delivered the 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture. It was a wonderful evening paying tribute to a political titan and his humility, his intellect, and his commitment to progressive pluralism.

A reminder of our event at Lib Dem Party Conference tomorrow here!

On the eve of @libdems.org.uk Party Conference (and our event at 1pm in the Hardy Suite, Hermitage Hotel!), political commentator and former Lib Dem councillor Mathew Hulbert sets out what HIS leaders speech would be. Read it below!👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/the-conferen...

We're thrilled that @chrleft.bsky.social have sent the Compass, @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social and @openlabour.bsky.social motion on ending the two-child benefit limit to this year's Labour Party Conference. Ending the two-child limit is the right thing to do, morally, economically and politically.

It's clear the Labour government is on the ropes. But there is time for the party to save it, writes Compass Director Neal Lawson for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. www.compassonline.org.uk/there-is-sti...

Who owns Britain? @cmmonwealth.bsky.social have dared to ask. You won't like the answer. In the private water industry, 28% of your bills go to paying dividends and financing debt. And you don't even have a new reservoir to show for it.

🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds. Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Our event at @libdems.org.uk Party Conference is THIS SATURDAY! 1pm, Hardy Suite, Hermitage Hotel. The panel is a force to behold - @mp4stratford.bsky.social, @rozsavage.bsky.social, Vince Cable and @pauldfollows.bsky.social - will discuss what the Party can do to build an even bigger force.

The 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture will take place tomorrow evening - delivered by @labourlewis.bsky.social. There are still a handful of spaces left to attend this wonderful event and celebrate Robin's legacy. Secure your tickets here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

It's been a tumultuous time for the Labour Government at present - and Conference next weekend might be the last thing they want. Compass members can join us LIVE at 6pm on Tuesday 23rd as we sit down with @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social MP and @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss what's next!

193 BILLION POUNDS. That's how much has been paid in dividends by essential utility companies in the past 35 years. Including nearly £90bn by water companies. That money doesn't come from thin air. It comes from the bill payer. New @cmmonwealth.bsky.social analysis out now.

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

🎙️NEW EPISODE: The eloquent and inspiring @georgemonbiot.bsky.social joins us to share his wisdom on how progressives can shape the next decade. For starters: ever heard of Public Luxury?

Danny Kruger's defection to Reform is a dangerous indication of Britain's drift to the Right. Labour promised a decade of national renewal but are delivering a Reform UK government. Compass in @theipaper.com.

Compass has joined with @citizennetwork.bsky.social and @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social to bring together Democracy SOS, a new paper presenting a joined-up case for everyone in public office to help secure the democratic governance our country needs. 👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...

Do please have a listen. Compass gets to the heart of things.

Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/48u9...

OUT NOW! In our first show back after the summer break, Compass Director Neal Lawson sat down with one of Britain's foremost progressives - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. It's a conversation you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

COMPASS @ LIB DEM PARTY CONFERENCE We cannot wait for our event at Lib Dem party conference this year! THE FUTURE IS ORANGE: What's next for the party? brings together the best minds old and new to discuss exactly where the Lib Dems go next. Please join us!

The next election poses existential question for progressives - and makes a progressive alliance all the more necessary. But what would happen if the progressive alliance won? Compass member Peter Davidson sets out the need for a Citizens' Convention👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/how-can-the-...

Anyone who is a Labour member or eligible to be a Labour member can become a member of @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social. Labour must put a bold but realisable offer to the country if it is to deliver real change and take on Reform UK. Join here here: mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved

Today, @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social has been launched. Mainstream is a new network for Labour members and supporters who want Labour to put a more transformative offer to the country. Initiated by Labour members of Compass with help from the @openlabour.bsky.social National Committee & others.