Home Office announces plan to deport refugees by default
Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan is home to over 80,000 Syrian refugees. The overwhelming majority of people fleeing Syria live in bordering countries in the Middle East. Photo by Dominic…
A change of Labour leadership is needed (but not a move to the right)
Labour Party conference in 2008: a Blairite Labour party winning another UK election is as undesirable as it is likely. Image: Adrian Scottow, Flickr. In a recent letter, a group…
America is not the world – Why we should not obssess with Trump but think globally
William Hague with the Gulf Cooperation Council secretary Whenever a disaster takes place somewhere in the 'Western' world - in North America, Europe or Australasia - it is inevitably followed first by…
Stoke-on-Trent and the working classes aren’t broken; our political system is.
Many will have breathed a sigh of relief this week when news broke that UKIP resoundingly failed to win a parliamentary seat in Stoke-on-Trent, often touted as the Brexit Capital…
Ed Miliband Shares Some of the Greatest Responsibility for Brexit – Can We Please Stop Trying to Rehabilitate Him?
Ed Miliband, former Labour Party leader. Image credit: flickr user Plashing Vole I often think back often to the optimism of 2010. Yes, Labour had lost an election,…
Video: Thousands join #MuslimBan protests in London
Image: Women's rights protesters at Monday's anti-Trump protest. Credit: Josiah Mortimer. Donald Trump’s decision to ban the citizens of seven Muslim countries coming to the US has sparked outrage across…
This is what life is like on zero-hours contracts
Image courtesy of Better Than Zero An anonymous contribution from someone with experience of zero-hours contracts. I have had around 6 zero-hours contract jobs over the years, in a variety…
The dark side of lesser known ‘special relationships’
Alexandra Barcea gives Bright Green an Eastern European perspective on Trump's inauguration Budapest protesters on the Women's March on Saturday, 21st January. Credit: Lidia Klingenberg The Trump inauguration and the…