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...
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...
A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn
If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party officially “accepts the result” of the referendum, but ask yourself this question:...
Ed Miliband Shares Some of the Greatest Responsibility for Brexit – Can We Please Stop Trying to Rehabilitate Him?
I often think back often to the optimism of 2010. Yes, Labour had lost an election, and thanks to the treacherous actions of the supposedly centre-left Lib...
To defeat the Tories in 2020, we need a progressive alliance
This article is part of Bright Green’s ‘Labour or Green?’ series- if you’d like to contribute to this series, please send a draft to The present Conservative...
Only Pluralism Can Save Us Now
This article is part of Bright Green’s ‘Labour or Green?’ series- if you’d like to contribute to this series, please send a draft to The call for...
How local Greens are fighting air pollution
To a lot of people, Northampton will mean little more than a stopping off point on the way to London. Over the past 30 years, local and national...
This boundary review risks skewing our democracy. It’s time to think again
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...
It’s human, not ‘British’, rights that we must fight for
Let’s be honest: many of us dislike the actions taken by the current Conservative government. However, nothing is more stomach churning than the virulently defamatory claims about the European...