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We're joining with @PEF_online to present this year's conference - CHANGE: NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority🤝 With keynote speeches from @garyseconomics, @CarolineLucas and @ZackPolanski actionnetwork.org/ticketed_event…

A reminder this is happening tomorrow night! The one-stop-shop for all of your post-Makerfield analysis.

The good society isn't utopian - it's already all around us. @ProfKEPickett has got the examples to back it up. After you've watched, we want to hear yours. Which existing project gives you the most hope? 💭

The details are important - but protecting the development of our children is vital to our future. It's welcome to see state intervention on companies that are changing our society for the worse. The Good Society needs to be actively built every single day.

OUT NOW! We sat down with economist @meadwaj to discuss how progressives can be trusted on the economy and how we re-commit to environmentalism is this fragmented age. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

I spoke with Rob, a Makerfield resident and Environment Agency whistleblower featured in Channel 4's 'Dirty Business'. He wants to see Andy Burnham @andy4makerfield elected and water brought into public ownership.

WATCH: I joined host, Manda Scott, and fellow guest, Neal Lawson, co-founder of @CompassOffice, for the latest episode of Accidental Gods, where we discussed the forthcoming by-election in #Makerfield. accidentalgods.life/grown-up-polit…

At 'Change: NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority', over 700 progressives came together to figure out how we make this country better. Full video coming next week!

Change: NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority was a day for progressives to show the strength we have in our numbers. Read the full review of the day by James Joughin in @SussexBylines 👇

The Makerfield by-election will have ramifications for the entirety of British politics, one way or another. Come join us at 6pm next Friday to dissect it all - with @mainstreamlbr's Kerry Postlewhite, @DantonsHead, @AvaSantina and @Anouschka_Rajah!

Keir Starmer’s time as Prime Minister will be remembered for indecision and an unwillingness to commit to the difficult decisions. You can’t please everyone in Government, yet Starmer has uniquely managed to please no one. Compass on John Healey's resignation as Defence Sec👇

THIS WEEK! Keep your eyes peeled for the next episode of our podcast, It's Bloody Complicated, as we're joined by economist James Meadway (@meadwaj) to discuss just how progressives can be trusted on the economy.

'Change: NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority' was a fantastic day full of debate, deliberation and disagreement. And you'll be able to see exactly why. Full video out next week!

Read it here: franciswshin.substack.com/p/there-will-b…

Our Director @Neal_Compass sat down with the Accidental Gods podcast (and @GreenRupertRead) to discuss Britain's progressive majority and the world we're within the grasp of building. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Compelling read from brilliant Compass member @Francis_W_Shin. All serious contenders for Labour Party leadership want to move Britain closer to the EU. But without electoral reform, any reset risks being torn up by the next Eurosceptic government. 👇

Full article: independent.co.uk/voices/andy-bu…

The two-party system has fractured, and it isn't coming back. The question now is whether the progressive majority in this country can find a way to come together and win on a bold progressive mandate. Andy Burnham's pitch to lead Labour and keep out Reform rests on that plan.

Today I raised an urgent question in parliament about the systemic failures in the water sector. The constants disasters of privatised water are not the symptoms of market failure. This is the market working as designed: profits out, sewage in, cost of living up, security of supply, decimated. You can no more regulate privatised water companies than you can the tide. So I asked the Minister for Water: how many more failures, how many more inquiries, how many more deaths - before the Government accepts these problems are systemic – and gives the public the option of taking their water back?

On 30th May, nearly a thousand progressives - from different parties and none - chose to walk through the same door at #ChangeNOW. Because the threat of the far right is real. And we can only beat them if we're hopeful, bold, and united. Full speeches coming soon.

At the local elections, Reform swept away progressive parties in much of the North East, exploiting First Past the Post. Progressive parties need to work collaboratively to stand up for progressive voters in left behind areas. @NEBylines's Peter Sagar outlines the scale of this progressive tragedy: