Luke Hurst

2 weeks ago | compassonline.org.uk | Luke Hurst

It’s Friday morning, the second reading of Clive Lewis’s Water Bill on Parliament Live TV. I hear Clive say that we need to be able ‘to imagine a better way.’ If my memory serves me (it often doesn’t) he was referring to our economic model. He reminded me of this, from Imarisha Walidah: “The decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born.

4 weeks ago | compassonline.org.uk | Stewart Lansley |Luke Hurst

Here is Compass’ response to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, presented to parliament today:“These unprecedented cuts, impacting on the poorest people in our country, won’t just slow any economic recovery but embed a social recession, turbo-charging people’s disillusionment with politics, people who were promised change. Only the Tories, and more likely Reform, can benefit from this.

1 month ago | compassonline.org.uk | Luke Hurst |Ed Maxwell

The 4th July 2024 was a special night for me. The poor coverage aside (the BBC really were missing Dimbleby, weren’t they?), it was a wonderful spectacle for a 33-year-old who had only known the dying embers of New Labour and 14 years of Conservative misrule in his political consciousness. After all the damage and suffering they had inflicted on the country, at last we would be tormented no longer.

Feb 2, 2024 | euronews.com | Josephine Joly |Luke Hurst |David Walsh |Giulia Carbonaro

Conversations around the four-day workweek were first reignited by the COVID-19 pandemic, with workers and employers rethinking the importance of workplace flexibility and benefits. The idea is simple – employees would work four days a week while getting paid the same and earning the same benefits, but with the same workload. Companies reducing their workweek would therefore operate with fewer meetings and more independent work.

Feb 2, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Josephine Joly |Luke Hurst |David Walsh |Giulia Carbonaro

Conversations around the four-day workweek were first reignited by the COVID-19 pandemic, with workers and employers rethinking the importance of workplace flexibility and benefits. The idea is simple – employees would work four days a week while getting paid the same and earning the same benefits, but with the same workload. Companies reducing their workweek would therefore operate with fewer meetings and more independent work.