Holyrood 2011: personality politics
As you drive through Alyth, it is the yellow flashes that catch your eye - daffodils, primroses and placards. This is John Swinney country. In the small towns between Perth…
Greenpeace activists scale Cairn Arctic oil platform
There is, perhaps, no better sign that oil companies expect prices to stay high than new drilling in places previously seen as too difficult, too expensive, or too downright dangerous.…
10 facts about Tesco
What with "Tesco Riots" taking place last night in Bristol's Stokes Croft area, I thought I'd write some things about Tesco. These are mostly from Tescopoly 1) 1 in every…
Police PR departments & protest
Police in Bristol have tonight arrested a number of people who they say were squatting a building in Stokescroft. There has been a long running squat on Cheltenham Road in…
Film: Green Party of Northern Ireland election broadcast
Presented by the lovely Green Party NI leader Steve Agnew, the Northern Irish Greens broadcast is an intro to green economics - 'economics for people and planet'.
Democracy abolished in Michigan
The city of Benton Harbor in Michigan has now had its democracy abolished. Earlier this month, right wing Republican Governor Snyder secured from the State legislatures the power to declare…
Where did all the money go?
Reports hit the headlines this week of a London flat going for a record £138m. 3 years after the credit crunch, and the mega rich are richer than ever. 3…
General Strike?
Never let anyone tell you that millions of people withdrawing their labour can't change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. That's what Margaret Mead said, isn't…
Abolish tactical voting, make elections about ideas
AV is no one's perfect system. But it does, as far as I'm concerned, have a significant advantage over First Past the Post. There is no point in voting tactically…
Export led growth, Mr Cameron?
This week sees another kick in the face for the Tory's economic strategy. Government cuts may have sucked enough demand out of the UK economy to help keep inflation down…