Contenders announce bids for 2016 Holyrood elections
MSPs John Finnie, Alison Johnstone and Patrick Harvie with party Co-Convenor Maggie Chapman at the 2014 SGP conference. Image: Scottish Green Party/Callum MacLellan Scottish Greens have been doing pretty well…
Mutually Assured Destruction: The Future of the NHS
Creative Commons In August 2014, as the first experiment of a totally privatised NHS hospital was grinding to a disastrous end, the Coalition quietly initiated the first phase of their…
Greens break £100k crowdfunding mark and launch new project
The Green Party's new crowdfunding campaign The Green Party has raised over £100,000 through crowdfunding, the party has the website Crowdfunder alone ( excluding local projects through Indiegogo, Kickstarter and…
HuffPo-fail in Living Wage smear against Natalie Bennett
UPDATE: About half an hour after this article was published and tweeted at them, Huffington Post took the article down! ------ You might have spotted it today: a Huffington Post article…
Breaking: Fracking and unconventional oil and gas halted in Scotland
Protesters at the SNP conference in Perth, October 2013. Image by the author. "From today there will be a moratorium on all unconventional oil and gas extraction", Scottish Energy Minister Fergus…
NHS strike postponed
UNISON members on strike at Salford Royal hospital (Matt Hanley) With less than 48 hours before today's planned 12 hour nationwide strike of NHS nurses, porters, cleaners, ambulance staff, secretaries…
Green Party conference forced to change venue due to #GreenSurge
The Green Party of England & Wales' spring conference in March has been forced to change venue, in order to accommodate the thousands of new members the party has gained…
Scotland: Total ban on fracking and unconventional gas in sight
Image by the Author. Protester at INEOS, Grangemouth in December 2014. After a flurry of announcements and counter-announcements this week the campaign to ban toxic and risky forms of gas drilling…
Vivienne Westwood pledges £300,000 to the Greens
Creative Commons - Southbank Centre Legendary punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is to donate £300,000 to the Green Party, the New Statesman's May2015 site reported today. Westwood told the site:…
Just one full day left to vote on motions for Green Party conference
There's just one full day left of voting in the Green Party's 'prioritisation ballot' for the upcoming Spring Conference in March. The ballot determines which motions will make it onto…