It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast

We’re delighted to welcome academic, author, social commentator, and human cartographer Danny Dorling to the podcast this week.

The conversation roamed over many topics, from Biden and Covid, to Finla…

On 5th November 2020, we hosted this very special transatlantic edition of It’s Bloody Complicated – outside of our usual fortnightly schedule –  to talk to three people with direct experience in bui…

This week’s live podcast formed part of Build Back Better: How?, a 10 day series of conferences about how we can make the good society after Covid-19 a reality.

Universal Basic Services, a guaranteed …

The Scottish Labour Party’s decline has been severe. How – if at all – can it claw back something like the support it once enjoyed? With 51% of Labour voters now backing independence, how should Scot…

This week we were joined by Ed Miliband.

Ed is best known as leader of the Labour Party but his political career goes way beyond that. In his podcast "Reasons to be Cheerful" he uses the wealth of his…

Long before Covid hit, it was evident to many that the UK was hurtling towards a crisis of Care. Now we simply cannot deny that the way we think about the way we care for our most vulnerable – who do…

Could proportional representation renew our democracy? 

On this week’s episode we’ll be focussing on electoral reform, and exploring what it could mean to have a different voting system in the UK. Wit…

This week we were joined by Matthew Taylor, writer, broadcaster, and CEO of the RSA. Matthew was one of a cabal of four back in the early 2000s who helped invent Compass.

In a wide ranging discussion,…

It’s safe to say that Corbyn’s leadership divided opinion within the Labour Party, and the aftershocks of those divisions are still keenly felt today.

It’s also clear that Labour has much to learn fro…

In May, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in no uncertain terms that universal basic income is an "idea whose time has come".

The SNP have come out in full force for this policy.

That's w…

In early 2020, Compass launched the Basic Income Conversation to help a public movement for basic income in the UK. A few months later, the pandemic hit and suddenly everyone was talking about BI.

It’…

It’s ten years since the Greens had their first MP elected, and since then so much has changed. The climate crisis is no longer considered a niche issue; Extinction Rebellion has become a global move…

This episode we were joined by Director of the Common Weal think tank and Compass Council member, Robin McAlpine.

What’s next for the Scottish Independence movement? How, if at all, can Labour solve i…

Protests, a presidential race and a pandemic. The last few months in the US have thrust questions of racial justice and equality to the fore.

As Kimberly Jones, US activist, writer and one of our gues…

This episode we were joined by LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell.

Peter first began campaigning against injustice and human rights abuses when he was at school. More than 50 years lat…

This week we were joined by Sue Goss, long-time friend of Compass and author of Open Tribe.

Sue has been writing and thinking about politics, local government, and democracy for over 30 years and we f…

This episode we're joined by former cabinet minister and now Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

Andy knows Westminster politics from the perspectives of both government and opposition, but he …

This week we were joined by writer, political scientist and commentator Miatta Fahnbulleh.

Miatta Fahnbulleh is a British economist and Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation. She is also a k…

This week we talk to the distinguished writer and campaigner for democracy, Anthony Barnett.  Anthony is co-founder of Open Democracy, a website for political writing which tirelessly challenges powe…

Join us in conversation with Labour MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy.

Lisa’s been working tirelessly as an MP for 10 years now, but rose to prominence this year as a contender in the Labour …