The Champagne Socialist Fallacy
Glasses of champagne. Photo: Lionel Allorge, via Wikimedia Commons. ‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, while…
Green Parties support Syriza’s call for debt conference for Greece
Photo: Wikimedia. Leading figures from both the Green Party of England and Wales and the Scottish Green Party have voiced support for Greece to reject the proposal from the Troika…
Laudato Si, or how we need to learn a thing or two about faith
8th Night of Hannukah. Photo by Scott Ableman, You may be, like me, a person who does not embrace a particular faith, even if you were raised, as I was, nominally Protestant.…
Thousands of Greens join national anti-austerity demo
This Saturday saw the Green Surge made flesh as thousands of Greens joined the estimated 250,000-strong national anti-austerity demo in London. This demonstration, organised by the People's Assembly Against Austerity, occurred…
Tom Chance: ‘Greens can take London back so housing is provided for the common good’
Tom Chance, standing for Green candidate for London Mayor, discusses how the Greens can solve the housing crisis in London. You can find more of Bright Green's coverage on next…
‘Social housing, not social cleansing’ – the case of the Focus E15 Mums
This article was reposted with permission from the Green European Journal, where it first appeared on 22 May 2015. The UK faces a housing crisis. It is this crisis, and…
Despite the election result, most people in the UK want an end to austerity
Anti-austerity protest in Dublin, October 2013. Image: Tony Webster. We shouldn't ever put too much weight on the findings of a single poll. However, there's some very interesting stuff in…
Losing Quiggins, Lennon and Liverpool’s Corporate Capture
The Beatles Mural, Seaforth was painted in 2008 as part of Liverpool's capital of culture celebrations. Image: Beverley Goodwin, Flickr. I’m returning to Edinburgh from a conference in Liverpool. It’s…
Living Wage of £10/hour: a quick policy guide
Image: Flickr user Phil and Pam. A living wage of £10 an hour by 2020 is a key Green policy. We live in a country where food banks are flourishing,…
NHS Surcharge for Migrants: the latest slide on the slippery slope to full American-style privatisation
Image: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. When news was announced last week that the government was introducing a new NHS surcharge for incoming migrants, I saw several friends posting…