Reading the Election Runes before the Polling Booths Open
This piece started as a comment on Mike Small’s article, ‘A liminal moment’, on the Bella website, but then got too ridiculously long to go in as a comment!] Elections…
Great Green Elections 1 – Mark Ballard elected Rector of Edinburgh University 2006
The upcoming Scottish and Welsh elections offer us the chance to look back at some great Green election successes in the past. Of course, Greens, as a fairly new electoral…
Robots Against Fairer Votes
Are you a fanatical party hack? Do you believe the party you choose to vote for is perfect beyond measure, and every other party evil beyond redemption? If you live…
PR company copyrights “radical media”, threatens to sue activists
This post first appeared at Radical media has a long history in social movements, from The British Worker, launched during the 1926 TUC General Strike, via audio cassettes with subversive messages…
Guardian closes local blogs
The Guardian has chosen to end its trial local blogs in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds. Here, Ruth Dawkins writes about the loss of the Edinburgh blog - the piece first…
Bright Green Crowd-Sources Buried Bad News
On September 11th 2001 – the day the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York were brought down by Osama bin Laden’s militants – Jo Moore a…
Thought Police
Look, I'm not going to tell you what to think about the Royal Wedding. Telling you what to think is the police's job: Let me make it clear. This is…
Tories don’t want a snap election – why I disagree with Jackie Ashley
Jackie Ashley has written an interesting piece arguing that the Tories may well want a snap general election this year. This is why I disagree. But I should be clear…
Class Activism
I wanted to write a response to the previous article about the anti cuts movement because frankly, I'm obsessed with class (I can't even make a curry without wittering on…
On class and the anti-cuts movement
The class war has spread to the 'anti-cuts' movement. I suppose it was inevitable. After decades of watching wages stagnate, and economic inequality widen, the chickens are now coming home…