The future is… Fully Automated Luxury Communism?
Fully Automated Luxury Communism is the hottest thing on the futurist Left block right now. It is a term used to describe the shift towards robots taking the jobs of…
Greens put forward a sixth vision for the future of Europe
Green MEPs celebrate the defeat of the ACTA trade agreement in 2012. Image © European Union 2012 - European Parliament The Greens/European Free Alliance has released it’s ‘6th Scenario’ for…
Sortition: the way to remake democracy for the 21st century
Photo credit: flickr user Amy West used under Creative Commons license: One of the big – perhaps even the biggest – philosophical questions that any society must answer is…
Are we witnessing populism, or extremism?
A Trump rally in Las credit: flickr user Gage Skidmore Creative Commons license: Populism. You can’t get away from the term in the current climate of political commentary. At…
Macron wins gruding support of French Greens as Presidential runoff looms
Emmanuel Macron the Government Minister in 2014. He is now being hailed ad an 'outsider'. Image: Le Web The French green party has endorsed Emmanuel Macron for French President in…
Dutch Greens face temptation of joining pro-austerity coalition
GroenLinks campaigning in Amsterdam. The party may feel they have earned a place in Government after the hard-fought gains they made in the 2017 election. Photo by Roel Driever, Flickr.…
How PR ‘completely transformed’ New Zealand politics: Metiria Turei, Green Party co-leader
Metiria Turei, Green party Co-leader. Photo credit: New Zealand Tertiary Education Union used under Creative Commons license: In 1996, New Zealand introduced the Mixed Member Proportion (MMP) voting system…
Dutch elections: A big Green win against a bleak backdrop
Jesse Klaver led GroenLinks to a breakthrough result Left-leaning media in the UK and elsewhere have been teeming with jubilant headlines hailing the success of GroenLinks in the Dutch parliamentary…
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…
American pride in the time of hubris
Donald Trump, President of the US . Image by Flickr user Gage Skidmore. My father and I were not close growing up. A middle-aged man from a poor and…