Action for Equality, Democracy and Sustainability
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31 January 2026
Join Us at Our Next Coffee With Politics Morning
31 January - 10.00-12.30
NEW VENUE - Friends' Meeting House
Booking essential
'A Time of Monsters' - Reform and the Rest. What is to Be Done?
‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
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Are we in "a time of monsters"?
Are we doomed to stare at the oncoming juggernaut of Reform like helpless blinded rabbits in the middle of the road?
No of course not. We can stop them. The question is how?
To do that we need to understand what Reform and other far-right groups are about and how it is that they have so much mass appeal.
And from this we can develop a strategy that understands that appeal and is able to counter it.
We need to develop this strategy nationally and locally.
In this key meeting we hope to begin the process of working together to answer the threat of the far-right. So we are not the hapless rabbit staring at the headlights bearing down on us.
We have two brilliant speakers who will help guide us in the conversation.
Speaker: Paul Taggart is Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. Paul is an expert on the populist right in Europe and will take us through the context of the far-right in Europe and Britain and the rise of Reform.
Speaker: Lena Swedlow is Deputy Director of Compass and has a key role working with local groups on policies and strategies. She will talk about what Compass is planning nationally and what other local groups are doing.
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Click here to see meeting notes from previous Coffee Mornings - including The Political Economics of the Food System, Progressive Politics - What's Next?, Poverty, Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation, The Economy, The Environment, and more.
Local Government Reorganisation in Progress
Get involved in Sussex Campaigning
Compass groups in Sussex will be organising around local government reorganisation and the mayoral elections, working to achieve a progressive win and campaigning for a positive programme for this new tier of government. Would you be interested in joining a Sussex-wide group of Compass supporters to work towards a progressive mayoralty? If so, we would love to hear from you - please email brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk and we'll be in touch.
Coming Events - Coffee with Politics Mornings
March 2026 To Be Determined
About Brighton and Hove Compass
Nationally and locally, Compass campaigns for the good society, one that is more equal, democratic, and sustainable. We believe that no single organisation or political party can create the good society. And that the main progressive parties have far more in common than differences. So, we need to develop new and radical collaborations to achieve a good society.
Brighton and Hove is an amazing creative and progressive place with a vibrant artistic, community and voluntary sector. A city with an great track record of campaigning that remains as alive as ever with Pride, Black Lives Matter and others. And we are fortunate to have a council with a progressive majority. But our city is also a place where wealth and extreme poverty, poor housing, low paid and seasonal work, and homelessness sit side by side so, when we re-launched our local Compass group in 2020, our priority was to support Brighton build back better after the pandemic. However, our local collaboration can only achieve so much without changing Britain’s centralised, short term and tribal political system. We believe that there are three key elements getting in the way:
- Our unfair electoral system
- Our tribal politics
- Our over centralised national and local political systems
We are exploring ideas, discussing issues and planning strategies. We do this at our bi-monthly coffee mornings and other events in Brighton and Hove.
B&H Compass needs your input
Over the coming 2-3 years, B&H Compass will be holding campaigning actions and conversations around the broad theme of democracy and power. Watch this space for more, or contact us on brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk if you have ideas or would like to get involved.
Brighton and Hove Compass is coordinated by a volunteer steering group of seven.
Join Compass here https://action.compassonline.org.uk/. And email us locally at brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk
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