Where to go, what to do? Greens and the Corbyn challenge
Mark Ballard was Green MSP for Lothian from 2003-2007. He writes here is a personal capacity. When I left the Labour Party in the early nineties and started to put…
What does GE2017 mean for Northern Ireland?
Stormont, home of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Photo credit: flickr user Robert Young Creative Commons license To maintain even a meagre sense of optimism in Northern Irish politics one…
Go Green – 5 ways to convince your friends
So you have decided you’re going to vote for the Green Party on June 8th – now you just need to convince your friends and family to do the but…
30,000 excess deaths a year: what this election is really about
Photo by Salim Fadhley, Flickr user. Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License. It has been argued during this election campaign that Labour and Corbyn have the right ideas about the economy,…
No time to waste: to fight climate change we need a Labour Government
Jeremy Corbyn speaking with Naomi Klein and others in Paris during the 2015 climate summit. Image by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It’s 2017. You live in a dystopian future where tiny…
What’s the point of Trident? The Prime Minister hasn’t made up her mind
Image by Mentat Kibernes, Flickr user. Discussions about Trident always seem to take place in a hypothetical world where the only countries involved in a nuclear war are the UK…
The future is… Fully Automated Luxury Communism?
Fully Automated Luxury Communism is the hottest thing on the futurist Left block right now. It is a term used to describe the shift towards robots taking the jobs of…
Progressive alliances are more than formal pacts: this is a culture shift
Photo credit: flickr user Matito under Creative Commons license Number of seats the Green Party will stand aside in to help unseat the Conservatives: 24. Number of seats other progressive…
A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn
Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Photo credit: flickr Andy Miah Creative Commons license: If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party…
Sortition: the way to remake democracy for the 21st century
Photo credit: flickr user Amy West used under Creative Commons license: One of the big – perhaps even the biggest – philosophical questions that any society must answer is…