Harry Gold

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Can this be a progressive moment of change for Britain and Labour?

Dec 3, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Gerry Hassan

The election of the first Labour Government after fourteen years of Tory rule is a huge moment – as is the scale of its challenges; the state of society, public services and the economy, and the anxieties, fears and worries faced by millions in their everyday lives.
The Labour government must do more to prove its commitment to constitutional reform

Oct 11, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Francis Shin

Despite winning a huge majority in parliament a few months prior, Prime Minister Keir Starmer went into last month’s Labour Party conference facing slumping party morale and growing unpopularity.
The New Settlement: For a Better Society

Sep 10, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Neal Lawson |Harry Gold

Sue Goss Almost everyone recognises that we are at a turning point. Unless we transform our society, our economy and our democracy, we will face a downward spiral. The 2024 general election result brings a welcome relief to UK politics. Some better ideas and people are at the helm. But we desperately need a new paradigm.
John Smith – Remembering A Great Labour Leader - Compass

May 10, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |David Ward

John Smith, who sadly died thirty years ago, is paradoxically a past Labour leader who is both highly revered but also often overlooked. He held the leadership for just under two years (from July 1992 to May 1994) but in that period committed the Labour Party to radical modernisation of Britain’s governance and democracy. It was Smith who pushed decisively for Scottish and Welsh devolution, for freedom of information, and the national minimum wage.
How progressives can reclaim Englishness

Apr 23, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Caroline Lucas

We need to talk about England. For far too long, there has been a squeamishness on the left about ever discussing England in its own right. St George’s Day is in fact the only time of the year when English patriotism is even seen as acceptable, as politicians then try to out-compete each other in chest-thumping expressions of love for this country’s pubs, countryside and football teams.
Breaking the chain of despair: Lessons from Portugal

Mar 14, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Neal Lawson

Picture this: a left-of-centre party wins a majority to renew the country and bring back the hope that things can actually get better. To do so it appeases the forces on the right by promising fiscal rectitude. It offers little to avoid any glimpse of a tax and spend target to aim at. For the first two years in government, its plan is to mimic the austerity measures that its opponents would have put in place and then earn the right to open up the purse strings.
The Enemy Within: 40 years since the Miners' Strike

Mar 7, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Mark Perryman

Mark Perryman digs deep to find an enduring significance for the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike. Published in 1995 amidst the eruption of the Miners’ strike, activist-sociologist Huw Benyon’s introduction to Digging Deeper, a collection of reports and analyses from the coalfields’ frontline,captures the mood of living through this significant time very well:“The miners’ strike of 1984-85 is a landmark in the political and economic development of post-war Britain.
50 years on: Lessons from the February 1974 election

Feb 28, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Neal Lawson

On this day half a century ago, Britain went to the polls. The political script today isn’t the same today, but lessons can still be learnt. Back then the Tories had governed through a period of crisis. Industrial strife led to the three-day week and regular power cuts left homes dark and cold. The question then was who governed Britain, the government, or the unions? The voter’s answer was ambiguous.
10 years of polling data reveals that the Tories are indeed electorally shattered

Feb 16, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Ken Spours

This piece was first published on https://www.kenspours.com/. 10 years of opinion polls and election results highlight the Conservatives’ dire electoral situation following the Truss/Kwarteng debacle of October 2023. UK polls have now settled into a relatively stable pattern of average 18-point Labour lead over the past year or so. And there are reasons to be believe that this may not narrow significantly come polling day.
Brexit, four years on: Reflections on Britain, the EU and the wider world

Jan 31, 2024 | compassonline.org.uk | Harry Gold |Jon Bloomfield

Believers keep the faith. Matthew Goodwin, the favourite academic pundit of the Farageist Right, still claims that “Brexit ushered us all into an incredibly exciting and entirely new era in our national history.” Yet, quite quickly and with no political prompting, many more people have seen through the moonshine. They have realised there are few, if any, Brexit opportunities.