The time has come for a living rent
Image: Living Rent Campaign (Scotland). With a media heavily focussed on interest rates and property prices, it can be easy to forget that it is private renters who are on…
Most Scottish charities supported independence. Next time, they should say so
Third Sector Yes gathered support for independence from hundreds of charity workers, but no actual organisations. Image: Ric Lander/Third Sector Yes. Let's pick that title apart. First, next time? Can…
Glasgow blows up the post war dream
The news that Glasgow is to celebrate the Commonwealth Games coming to the city by blowing up the Red Road flats tells us a great deal. It tells us about…
Police suppress challenges to university marketisation
Clifford Fleming is the co-convenor of the Young Greens of England and Wales, and Campaigns and Citizenship Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. He tweets Universities are places…
Getting to grips with mental health
This guest post is by Sarah Cope, who has proposed a motion to Green Party Conference updating the party's policy on Mental Health. Party members can read all of the…
The toxic ecstasy tablets currently available are evidence of need for legal regulation
There are few political issues written about as irrationally and inaccurately as drugs policy, but the news reports in Scotland over the past week - about the fake ecstasy tablets…
How Do We Stop The Student Loan Book Sell-Off?
The Gown student newspaper, November 1995. NUS call for a bank boycott over student loan privatisation plans. Not content with attacking current and future students, the Coalition government now…
My public school days and the building of upper class solidarity
To understand the British public school system, or certainly, the part of it in which I spent my teenage years, it is crucial to get your head around three things.…
The Real Lessons from the Woolwich Killing
Regrettably, the reaction to the brutal murder of drummer Lee Rigby would seem to imply that Britain has learned little in over a decade of worrying about terrorism. Despite draconian…
Academics and the defence of their universities
Luke Martell An inspiring Convention for Higher Education in Brighton has made an important step forward, discussing what the public university should be, and investigating the implications of its marketisation.…