A Big Tent we’d all feel at home in
I had the pleasure to attend “The Big Tent” Festival at the weekend. The Big Tent is Scotland's environmental festival, which attracted 10,000 people over the weekend. Despite having meant…
Climate Conspiracy comes to Edinburgh Council
So Edinburgh Tory Councillor Cameron Rose has decided to start a climate conspiracy blog. I’ve had a look around and I can’t see any qualifications Cllr Rose has for a…
Why are bp so keen to sponsor art?
On Monday, The Tate will celebrate their sponsorship by bp. Artists and art lovers will be protesting outside. Today, oil industry experts at PLATFORM have launched a new briefing on…
Climate change & cuts
In my recent "a-z of why cuts are mad", "George Osborne: move over Keynes" and on our campaign site , I give a number of reasons why I oppose cuts…
Obama Sell Out Again – This Time on Offshore Drilling
If selling out the prospect of meaningful health care reform in the US might be viewed as merely a missed opportunity and a misplaced desire to compromise and achieve bipartisanship,…
Why make RBS back small businesses, but not renewables?
There is much to write about yesterday’s budget, but I thought I would highlight just one paradox – one I genuinely don’t understand. Alistair Darling announced a £1bn fund for…
Ken Livingstone hints at endorsement of Tony Juniper (but couldn’t possibly comment)
Fans of House of Cards will recognise it immediately. When asked whether he was urging Cantabrians to vote for Green candidate Tony Juniper over Labour's Daniel Zeichner, Ken Livingstone cannily…
Are we seeing the end of coal?
Just a very brief post to say well done to Patrick Harvie for securing a vote in Holyrood against Hunterston coal power station - and to cross-party back-benchers for supporting…
In Defence of Universalism
The Scottish Greens have been arguing for a couple of years that the government should create a universal free household insulation service. This has been very successfully rolled out in…
bailed-out RBS lead near billion pound deal for Uganda war zone oil company
Yesterday I posted a story about how we had just launched a legal action against the Treasury over their failure to stop RBS misusing public money. Right after I posted…