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Caring isn’t enough: to engage, people need to believe they can affect political change

Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series As a psychologist, you face a unique problem: everyone and their dog thinks they know the subject as well as you,...

Natalie Bennett on her proudest achievements, progressive alliances and the future of the Green Party

As the rest of the media clamoured to interview the two newly-elected co-leaders of the Green Party, at Bright Green we thought it’d be an excellent time to chat...

How calamity and injustice can bring us together: Brexit’s silver lining

Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series On the morning of the 24th June 2016, there were waves of political change reverberating all over the country....

How digital democracy can boost political engagement

Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series This isn’t a great time to be on the left. There can be no denying that with Labour’s self-destruction,...

Only by citizens “taking back control” can public confidence be restored in politics

Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series British politics in 2016 is in a peculiar state. Our society is recovering from the recent EU referendum in which...

News

Sunday at the Labour Party conference

Sam Mace25 September 20162 Comments 2016-09-25T19:04:59+00:00

A labour conference isn’t just the motions, but the speeches, the fringes and the rallies too. Following Corbyn’s overwhelming victory yesterday, today’s focus outside the conference hall and...

Greens are Labour supporters preferred coalition partner

Joe Lo 18 September 2016 1 Comment2016-09-18T13:36:19+00:00

A poll has shown that, if it was necessary to form a Labour-led government, the Greens are Labour supporters’ preferred coalition partner. Around 91% of Corbyn supporters would be happy to...

Further Austrian presidential election delay gives green Van der Bellen hope

Tom Bailey 14 September 2016 No Comment2016-09-14T16:47:23+00:00

The rerun of the Austrian presidential election has been pushed back to December 4th after Wolfgang Sobotka, the county’s Interior Minister, sought parliamentary approval to delay the vote....

Revealed: GPEx election results full breakdown

Bradley Allsop 3 September 2016 4 Comments2016-09-03T13:40:27+00:00

Bright Green can reveal the full breakdown of the Green Party internal election votes. There was record turnout for the 9 positions that make up the executive team...

Revealed: Full breakdown of the Green Party leadership election

Josiah Mortimer 3 September 2016 9 Comments2016-09-03T09:36:59+00:00

Bright Green can reveal the full breakdown of the Green Party leadership election votes. The figures obtained by Bright Green show that Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas won...

Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley’s speeches in full

Josiah Mortimer 2 September 2016 1 Comment2016-09-02T14:56:06+00:00

Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley have been elected Leaders of the Green Party with a landslide, securing 87% of the vote. Here are their speeches in full: Resistance...

Comment

Labour leadership: the result and future challenges

Sam Mace24 September 20162 Comments 2016-09-24T13:27:22+00:00

Corbyn has won a bigger mandate than the last leadership election and once again won in all 3 categories of electorate. This includes the membership of the party...

Eco-socialism on one island: why the Isle of Eigg shows us the way forward

StuartRodger 23 September 2016 1 Comment2016-09-23T11:53:33+00:00

The sand beneath my feet is squeaking as I tread upon it. The water crashing against the shore is turquoise and clear. In the distance, to the west, the...

Post-Brexit, Northern Ireland is being hung out to dry over the border

Robert Magowan 22 September 2016 7 Comments2016-09-22T18:45:33+00:00

The Westminster inquiry into the future of the Irish border announced last week is useless if we still don’t know what kind of Brexit this government wants. “Brexit...

Leadership in the Green Party: a dangerous new approach

Douglas Rouxel 22 September 2016 29 Comments2016-09-22T16:24:47+00:00

There is much writing about leadership theory, almost all of it a built on assumption that the leader of an organisation has significant individual (or dual, in the...

New political tribes – who should Greens be targeting?

Sam Coates 21 September 2016 6 Comments2016-09-21T18:44:54+00:00

Back in 2013, during my campaign to be Elections Coordinator of the Green Party I wrote a piece laying out my thoughts on who we should be targeting in...

This boundary review risks skewing our democracy. It’s time to think again

Josiah Mortimer 14 September 2016 3 Comments2016-09-14T13:13:18+00:00

It’s fair to say the boundary review has caused a stir. Why? Let’s start with the whole basis of this shakeup. The boundary redrawing is being conducted on the basis...