Why "Yes Yes" beats "Yes No"
Despite polls showing those intending to vote No in the independence referendum hovering at around 50% and those intending to vote Yes at around 30%, last week’s article by Joyce…
Being Human – and refusing ecocide
Where are the proposals, the routemaps, to help us disentangle ourselves from the ecocidal economic growth machine we have been convinced we are wedded to? There are clearly many such…
Prefiguring the kinder society we want
To resist the attempts of those who seek to drag yet more wealth away from ordinary people to fill the coffers of those who brought us the financial crisis, we…
The Global North – the need to prepare for two very different scenarios
The economic and political situation is clearly volatile rather than static. It can all go either way very quickly, that our response (or lack of one) is what will make…
What are current political conditions, and how could a Commons approach flourish in them?
In Robin McAlpine’s superb analysis (After the election . . . where next for Scottish Politics?) the Scottish Parliamentary Holyrood May 2011 election was about a long term process in…
Can we criticise the current system in a way that prefigures and enables a more just society?
In a recent interview, the BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr asks Noam Chomsky whether he thinks Marr is “self-censoring”. Chomsky replies by saying, in effect: No, there is no self-censorship…
Why do we knuckle under and accept a system driving us to extinction?
This is the fourth in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the fifth will try to begin answering the question: How can we…
What is the Commons, and how does it work?
This is the third in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the fourth will try to begin answering the question: Why do we…
The Commons is alive and well, and we can be part of it
This is the second in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the third will try and answer the question: What is the…
Climate chaos – Can we stop it before its too late?
If Copenhagen was the last chance to stop climate chaos, if we had to turn the whole ship round by 2012 to stand a chance but are now racing even…