What are the Greens’ values?
The Green MEPs, who spoke at Green Party conference about standing shoulder to shoulder with migrants John Denham has written an interesting piece on OurKingdom about today's One Nation…
If we want to scare Assad, arrest Blair
Parliament de facto accepted last night something that we already knew. Tony Blair is a war criminal. As Anthony Barnett has pointed out, the consensus, across the house was that…
A dream…
50 years ago today, Dr Martin Luther King gave his most famous speech. Here is its full text, cut with a few pictures of unarmed black people killed by American…
New poll: mass support for public ownership
Privatisation is unpopular, a failure, and being rejected across the Western world. That's the finding of a major report from the new campaign group 'We Own It', which calls for…
Time for a chat about left electoral pacts?
"There is nothing more divisive on the left than a call for unity”. These wise words came, I am told, from the ever witty Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox…
Brighton pay dispute ends as workers accept new offer
Refuse workers in Brighton have declared an end to their industrial action after the council leadership backed down in a dispute which rocked the UK's only administration run by Green…
Iceclimb: when the Arctic is threatened, so is our civilisation
When people do awesome things to highlight vast global problems, sometimes it's easier to talk about what they did than why they did it. So it is with the six…
Natalie Bennett’s stand on immigration is cunning politics
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett went to the Romanian Cultural Institute yesterday to call for an end to immigrant bashing (you can read the full speech here). This wasn't just…
Green Party leader slams immigrant scapegoating
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett yesterday gave a speech at the Romanian Cultural Institute slamming leaders from across the political spectrum for scapegoating immigrants. In her speech, she apologised for…
Falkirk West: listen to what the journalists aren’t saying
Lisa Simpson, in an ancient episode of the famous TV series, tells us how to enjoy jazz music: “listen to the notes they're not playing”. It's good advice in politics…