From splendid isolation to solidarity – a tale of divestiture
#truth at #tli — Resource Generation (@ResourceGen) July 11, 2014 In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political…
Hope as Resistance: 16 Pictures of Dissent to World War One
The last surviving British veteran of the First World War, Harry Patch, died in 2009. With him dies the collective memory of a generation that fought, resisted, endured and dreamed.…
Is this the future of party funding?
Plymouth Green Party has had significant success with crowdfunding. We all know the facts about parties. Most of their memberships are declining, and with falling subs they’re more and more…
Time for Plaid and the Greens to collaborate
I watched Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood's speech to her party conference this weekend on my laptop. My housemate – an economist and environmental activist – was next door, and…
Crisis in the Scottish media: finding the phoenix
The exception that proves the rule: following its lone support for independence the Sunday Herald is the only Scottish paper not in terminal decline. Image: Ric Lander. The Scottish media…
It’s time for London to get votes that matter
The 2010 Purple Protests demanded electoral reform. Image: Ric Lander. In this year's local elections, once again, voters got the councillors they didn't elect. I'm being flippant, of course some…
What to do with all these new members? On Brighton strategies and national strategies
Brighton Greens on the sea-front at an Anti-EDL protest this Spring. Image: Tim Buss. Here's a stat for you: membership of the Green parties in the UK has trebled since…
Ending our reliance on oil will bring democracy to the Middle East and North Africa
There’s a simple idea that economic growth is good for democracy. A widely accepted truth, that when a citizen doesn’t have to worry about simple survival they can do more…
Conference shows Scottish Greens are a force to be reckoned with
Last Thursday, the people of Clacton dealt a massive blow to the establishment by voting UKIP re-electing their former Tory MP. After having the media spotlight on them for such…
The next Green MP? Peter McColl
In 2015, Greens are targeting a number of seats across the UK. With this in mind, I thought I'd do a quick series of profiles of the candidates in these…