Dodgy climate accounting rules pose a real threat to our forests
Global forests play a huge role as a carbon sink. At the same time, how we manage (or mismanage) forests and land has a major impact on the climate...
Youth turnout in the 2017 general election- what was going on?
While the opinion pollsters are still crunching the data, initial evidence suggests that there was a considerable increase in youth turnout in this year’s general election, which has...
The Tory/DUP partnership could be a mixed bag for Northern Ireland
If you’ve lived in Belfast as long as I have and hold any list of principles left of a century old Calvinist preacher then you’ve probably been to...
Trust and integrity have returned to British politics
As election night progressed, I started noticing that the general sentiment was huge surprise at the massive Labour gains, starting with the possibility of a hung parliament indicated by...
Where to go, what to do? Greens and the Corbyn challenge
Mark Ballard was Green MSP for Lothian from 2003-2007. He writes here is a personal capacity. When I left the Labour Party in the early nineties and started to...
What does GE2017 mean for Northern Ireland?
To maintain even a meagre sense of optimism in Northern Irish politics one needs the patience of a particularly composed saint. But even us saints who do our...
Go Green – 5 ways to convince your friends
So you have decided you’re going to vote for the Green Party on June 8th – now you just need to convince your friends and family to do the...
30,000 excess deaths a year: what this election is really about
It has been argued during this election campaign that Labour and Corbyn have the right ideas about the economy, that of course we all want to fund the NHS,...
No time to waste: to fight climate change we need a Labour Government
It’s 2017. You live in a dystopian future where tiny drone aircraft deliver pizzas, oil companies create earthquakes to get the last drops of fuel out of the earth,...
What’s the point of Trident? The Prime Minister hasn’t made up her mind
Discussions about Trident always seem to take place in a hypothetical world where the only countries involved in a nuclear war are the UK and some other country who...