Author Archives: Andrea Grainger
How can Labour rebuild its base?
Photo credit: Andy Miah - Creative Commons With Labour's serious loss to Boris Johnson's Conservative government, much of the British left is in a period of mourning and reflection. The…
Embracing Post-Keynesianism is key for Labour’s success
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the Stop Trident rally at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 27th February 2016. Photo by Garry Knight, public domain. Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party…
Our schools need more democracy, not just funding, to flourish
Photo: Pixabay user 'NeiFo' Creative Commons 0 license Modern society is riven with problems. We have huge inequality, unemployment, social strife, and we are falling to respond to our…
How investing in communities can be a vehicle for progressive change
How do we build strong communities in such large cities? Photo credit: pixabay user 'photomat' CC0 license Do you feel like you live in a good community, where people…
Capitalism relies on imperialism, and both systems may be in trouble
Photo credit: pixabay user 'stux' Creative Commons 0 This article is part of Bright Green’s ‘End of capitalism’ series- if you’d be interested in contributing something to this series, drop…
The myths and realities of government spending
Photo credit: flickr user Peter Creative Commons license: In the general election this May, many political commentators were talking up the Labour party under Corbyn as presenting a significant…
Infinite growth: humanity’s deadliest addiction
Image credit: Pixaby user Ralph Creative Commons CC0 For decades economists and politicians across the world have been using GDP growth as the primary means of measuring economic success.…
Yemen Civil War: another tale of two factions
View image | Yemen is in a state of civil war, more than three-thousand people have died, and the country is divided roughly in half between two factions both claiming…