January 1st, 2012
by Compass Youth Chair, Will Cass. Dear Friend, It’s that time of year when we all start to think about New Year resolutions. Some of us will want to lose weight, drink less, or maybe find a new job. Be what it may, New Year resolutions are a symbol of acknowledgement, commitment, and a readiness [...]
December 28th, 2011
by the Compass Youth Committee. Compass Youth is deeply concerned at attempts by the coalition government to reform voter registration. The biggest change to voting since the introduction of universal franchise will hit the jilted generation hard. Already under-represented by electoral politics and suffering disproportionate cuts to our services and life chances, the jilted generation [...]
November 28th, 2011
by Ralph Scott, Media Officer The Frontline Club recently hosted the first of the Media Standards Trust’s annual series of Orwell Prize-oriented events with a debate on this summer’s riots. The panel’s focus was on ‘writing the riots’ – how the riots have been interpreted and understood, and how they should be analysed now [...]
November 18th, 2011
by Compass Youth Committee Chair, Will Cass. The news that one million 16-24 year olds are unemployed is sadly no surprise. You can look round the table at the pub knowing that one of the five of you has been trawling jobs pages and doing unpaid work for the last six months or more. The [...]
October 13th, 2011
by Compass Youth Committee Vice-Chair, Matthew Fulton Last week, splashed on the front page of the Telegraph during Tory party conference, were proposals from the low pay commission on cutting the minimum wage for under-21s, because they believe that it is harming youth employment. The same was said when the minimum wage was introduced, yet between its [...]
October 5th, 2011
by Compass Youth Committee member, Ed Barney Radical, courageous and weird: the leader of the opposition The latter half of the 20th century saw the inexorable rise of a particular form of neoliberal capitalist ideology. What began in the 1980s as Thatcher and Reagan’s lovechild was further strengthened by thirty years of globalisation to become the [...]
September 20th, 2011
by Compass Youth Committee Chair, William Cass The blanket ban on all marches in the city of London for 30 days is an affront to democratic principles. Theresa May has decided to inhibit freedom of speech by invoking a restrictive ban on political expression. This is an attempt to mask the abuse of institutional power [...]
January 6th, 2011
The government is set to lift Britain’s blanket ban on prisoners voting. This comes a whole six years after it was ruled by the European Court of Human Rights that the ban contravened the right to free elections under the European Convention on Human Rights, drawn up after the Second World War. The Coalition’s immediate [...]
