Video: Protests as UK Government urged to #SaveLord
Protesters at the Scotland Office, Edinburgh, including John Finnie MSP, demand the immediate release of Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to Ghana following a bureaucratic cock-up…
Students fight deportation of NUS Officer for Refugees
Photo courtesy of @Julz2k5 on Twitter. Students across Britain are organising protests demanding the immediate release of fellow student Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to Ghana…
Dates, deals and dilemmas: what are the key factors in the EU referendum?
The hemicycle of the European Parliament. Photo: Wikimedia. We’ve finally been given a deal and a date for the EU referendum, with David Cameron firing the starting pistol on Saturday morning.…
Why young people need to start talking about Europe
Hannah Ellen Clare, Young Greens Co-Chair As David Cameron’s renegotiations come to a close, the debate on Britain’s membership of the EU is starting to begin in earnest. Disappointingly -…
Empire, slavery and Cecil Rhodes: history through the eyes of the coloniser
Photo: Wikimedia YouGov’s recent poll on the British Empire, colonialism and Cecil Rhodes came out with very terrifying results. Across three of its four questions, the largest share of respondents…
Beckett Report: Greens didn’t cost Labour the general election
Ed Miliband unveiling the 'EdStone' ahead of the 2015 General Election. Photo: Wikimedia We’ve all seen the headlines from Labour’s inquiry into its election defeat released last week. ‘Miliband seen…
It’s official, Greens are the most left-wing party (sort of)
Ideology is in the eye of the beholder. That’s the finding of a major study into party supporters and where they place themselves and their parties on the political spectrum.…
Elections of 2016: a statistical look ahead
Photo: Wikimedia So, it’s 2016. For followers of British politics, it will be a crowded year. In May, we have significant electoral contests in Scotland, Wales, London and Northern Ireland,…
Yes, an electoral pact would benefit Labour and the Greens
Once again, talk of a Green-Labour electoral pact has come back into the public eye, thanks to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn daring to not express outright hatred for Caroline Lucas,…
A Labour/Green electoral pact would do more harm than good
Dan Johnston argues that a Labour/Green electoral pact would do more harm than good to the Green Party, Labour and the left as a whole. Recently the Telegraph published a piece saying…