Jo Cox: a reaction
Great day in Cleckheaton campaigning to #remain in the EU with @KathPinnock and our team supporting #StrongerIn — Jo Cox MP (@Jo_Cox1) June 10, 2016 Labour MP Jo Cox died…
Grexit: The environmental case for voting Leave
Photo: Wikimedia On the last day before polling, it may still shock some of my environmentalist comrades that I am planning on voting to leave the European Union. Environmental policy…
Caroline Lucas: the EU is the environment’s best hope
Image: CAAT UK There are many good reasons for Britain to remain a member of the European Union. In a fast-changing world we need international rules to control big business…
A letter from Compass to UK Greens
In the first of a series of letters to progressive parties, the chair of Compass encourages the Green Party to drive the political debate. Dear Greens, This is the first…
100 years of the Battle of Jutland: a rebuke
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the German President Joachim Gauck are in Kirkwall, Orkney today. Harry Giles writes. Today my home has been overtaken by the descendants of people…
It would be easy for Greens to sneer at the Women’s Equality Party, but that would be a mistake
Just who are the Women’s Equality Party and what do they stand for? # — Stylist Magazine (@StylistMagazine) May 5, 2016 Writing from the Edinburgh count at Ingliston, it’s clear…
Frances’ story: living in the shadow of a benefits tribunal
Iain Duncan Smith. Photo by the Cabinet Office A few Fridays ago, on the day that Iain Duncan Smith resigned, I got up early and caught the train to Cambridge,…
NUS: poison or panacea to the student movement?
Photo: National Union of Students Watching the setting sun cast an orange glow across the English Channel from the Brighton seafront, your eyes are instantly drawn to the rusting remains…
We’re in danger of forgetting the true cause of unemployment
Protest at Leith Job Centre, July 2013. Image: Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Just how do they get away with it? “Towards full employment” was a slogan the Tories were using…
Deportation of Strathclyde student father delayed following protests
Protests took place in Edinburgh and London on Monday. Photo: Ric Lander The planned deportation of Lord Apesti has been postponed following protests in Edinburgh and London and interventions by…