An open letter to the BBC on their use of the word 'militant'
Dear BBC, I am writing to complain about you coverage of the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine. I am sure that you get many such complaints. Much of this, I suspect,…
Some thoughts for Greens after a ramshackle polling day
Yesterday was a pretty significant polling day, as they go. Police and crime commissioners in England and Wales, a troika of Parliamentary seats up for grabs, Bristol mayor, and various…
10 things we should be debating in the police commissioner elections
I don't have a problem with electing police commissioners. I basically think that if we're going to have people in any positions of power, they should all be elected. I…
Obama? Stein? It's decision time
Every four years, radicals in America face a dilemma. Should they vote Democrat to keep out the Republican? Or should they vote for a candidate who offers change? (some, of…
On badgers and rural class politics
Rowenna Davis has written in the New Statesman that the left should support the now postponed badger cull because we should support struggling farmers. The left has historically ignored rural…
Time to elect the BBC Trust?
Our friends over at the openDemocracy ourBeeb project yesterday published an explosive report into the failure of the BBC to cover the Health and Social Care Bill. I say explosive…
Feminists shouldn't have to strip off to get in the Guardian
It's not often you have a controlled experiment in analysing media content. Each story only happens once, so it's nearly impossible to say that it wouldn't have been reported, or…
Why I gate crashed the HMRC boss' dinner
Last week, some friends and I gate crashed a speech from the retired HMRC boss Dave Hartnett at the dinner at a tax dodgers conference. The video of our action…
Where is gender in our economic justice?
I recently went to a conference looking at the future of Europe. In one section, a group of us were talking about the kind of economy we'd like to see,…
New leader, new members, new feel
For me, this weekend's Green Party conference came with the crisp feel of a freshly ironed shirt* - and not particularly because of the new leadership team. There were many,…