Osborne’s 2015 budget shows the Tories don’t care about young people
View image | Clifford Fleming, Co-Chair of the Young Greens, on what the budget means for young people. This budget, it seems, was an opportunity for the government to send…
Religion is a mixed bag – the crucial task is to sort the good from the bad
"In my television debate during the General Election as the Green Party's Work and Pension's spokesperson, Iain Duncan Smith accused me of being a 'bad Christian' for challenging him over…
An SNP member on the importance of the Scottish Greens
Photo: Scottish Green Party Last week, Caroline Lucas—following the position of the Scottish Green Party—voted against the Scottish National Party's amendment for 'full fiscal autonomy' in the Scotland Bill, attracting…
The strengths of faith-based politics
"The Green Party’s emphasis on social justice is put into action by food banks which are nearly all run by churches, and the most influential report urging action on climate…
The Champagne Socialist Fallacy
Glasses of champagne. Photo: Lionel Allorge, via Wikimedia Commons. ‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, while…
What is the Green Party?
The Green bloc at the recent anti-austerity demo in London. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. What is the Green Party? For some we are an admirable but hopelessly naïve flavour of utopianism,…
Laudato Si, or how we need to learn a thing or two about faith
8th Night of Hannukah. Photo by Scott Ableman, You may be, like me, a person who does not embrace a particular faith, even if you were raised, as I was, nominally Protestant.…
Rebutting Caroline
Caroline Lucas is this country’s Great Green Hope, and it’s a very unwise Green Party member who seeks to get into a public argument with her. But I think it’s…
Harry Giles will never vote Labour. Here’s why he’s joining Labour
Image: Very unexpectedly, I just gave £3 to the Labour Party so that I can vote for Jeremy Corbyn in their leadership election. Because Labour are a sick joke. Because…
Caroline Russell: ‘London can be a city that shares its success with every citizen’
Caroline Russell, standing for Green candidate for London Mayor, discusses her vision for a Green London. You can find more of Bright Green’s coverage on next year’s London Mayoral and Assembly…