How the left has lost?: New Labour
This piece by Kevin Meaney is for our series on 'how the left has lost'. There are many reasons for the losses suffered by the left in the UK which…
The Future of Green Blogging
We’re delighted to have done so well in the Total Politics Blog Poll. We’d like to thank you for helping us to finish 61st in the Total Politics poll of…
Conference Fragments – Mobilising the Jilted Generation
I spoke, along with Shiv Malik of 'Jilted Generation', at the Young Greens fringe on 'mobilising the jilted generation'. Shiv spoke eloquently about how Thatcherite liberalism has screwed today's 20…
In Praise of Politics
We've been accused recently, and perhaps with some cause, of focusing too much on the machinations of the English and Welsh Green Party and not enough on what's happening up…
Green lessons from Down Under
by Kevin Meaney (@oxkev) it first appeared on his blog I grew up and worked in Australia before moving to the UK 13 years ago. Having recently become more actively…
100 Days of Solid Ideology
The coalition is 100 days old. And what a hundred days it’s been. They’ve ended the huge waste of building new schools. They’ve said they’ll end detention of children of…
Democratising and professionalising our Party further
Our guest writer is Cllr Rupert Read In my 'series' here on BG (see here) exploring the direction our Party (GPEW) needs to take, I have covered a little about…
Where next for Welsh politics?
By Sam Coates, who works for the Green Party in Wales Now that Labour is out of power in Westminster Wales has an interesting medal, it hosts the highest level…
Greens need to get out of the Comfort Zone to win
In the 2009 Rectorial election at Edinburgh University New Labour grandee George Foulkes was on his way to defeat by Iain Macwhirter. Foulkes couldn't escape the consequences of voting for…
More members, more Councillors, more Green success
By Rupert Read It wasn’t a surprise that the most heartfelt responses to my Bright Green blog-post (the responses by Jane Watkinson & Tom Chance) have been about what we…