Northern Ireland’s stake in the EU debate
The Northern Ireland media has been busy over the past couple of weeks speculating as to the composition of our new Executive. Now that is settled, for a while at…
100 years of the Battle of Jutland: a rebuke
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the German President Joachim Gauck are in Kirkwall, Orkney today. Harry Giles writes. Today my home has been overtaken by the descendants of people…
Both votes X and wasted votes: is it time to change Scotland’s voting system?
By Slaunger (Own work) , via Wikimedia Commons“Both Votes Labour,” voters were urged. “Lend Solidarity your vote on the PEACH paper”, Sheridan roared. Even newcomers were in on the act,…
Outdated, absurd and degrading: time to change Northern Ireland’s abortion laws
By Ardfern (Own work) , via Wikimedia is taken for granted that we all can control what happens to our body. Women in Northern Ireland however do not have control…
Sustainable peace in Palestine needs a federal, one-state solution
A divided Jerusalem. Image: Claudius Prößer Yoav Shemer-Kunz is a PhD candidate in political sciences at University of Strasbourg and VU University Amsterdam. In the final article in this short…
BDS is the only way Israel will take any notice
A checkpoint in Israel's separation wall at Bethlehem in the West Bank, Palestine. Photo: WhiteAnt Rebekah Gronowski is a member of Scottish Jews for a Just Peace. Here she responds…
Tatchell’s reply: “A new left-wing McCarthyism”
Photo courtesy of Peter Tachell In February Bright Green carried a blog by Chris Jarvis of the Norwich Radical entitled "How I fell out of love with Peter Tatchell". This…
New Scottish Greens policy meets the demands of the Palestinian people
Palestinian solidarity protest in Edinburgh, 12 July 2014. Image: Ric Lander Eurig Scandrett is a list candidate for the Scottish Greens in the South of Scotland and helped develop the…
Deportation of Strathclyde student father delayed following protests
Protests took place in Edinburgh and London on Monday. Photo: Ric Lander The planned deportation of Lord Apesti has been postponed following protests in Edinburgh and London and interventions by…
Video: Protests as UK Government urged to #SaveLord
Protesters at the Scotland Office, Edinburgh, including John Finnie MSP, demand the immediate release of Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to Ghana following a bureaucratic cock-up…