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…
There and back again, an FYEG tale
Tom Pashby, Campaigns Officer for the Young Greens of England and Wales, discusses his experience of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) General Assembly 2015 in Tblisi, Georgia. Federation of…
The Vow that can’t be written down
Cameron, Clegg and Miliband's "Vow" to the Scottish people was published a week before the referendum on independence and promised that the Scottish Parliament would be made permanent. Image: Daily…