Ken Livingstone hints at endorsement of Tony Juniper (but couldn’t possibly comment)
Fans of House of Cards will recognise it immediately. When asked whether he was urging Cantabrians to vote for Green candidate Tony Juniper over Labour's Daniel Zeichner, Ken Livingstone cannily…
UKIP and the Culture War
I was surprised to find that Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorks and Humber had been running his re-election campaign on the basis of climate change denial. This seemed…
Why should the biggest party govern us?
All this hung Westminster chat recently allows us Scots to suddenly feel experienced. The idea of confidence and supply was, I think, first discussed at Holyrood by pre-2007 Greens. It…
Tories propose corporate tax break?
It wasn't just Greens keeping a close eye on our spring conference. Tory candidate for Brighton Pavillion, Charlotte Vere, was regularly tweeting about the event. This particular one caught my…
Why I hate the West Wing
I have a terrible confession to make. For someone who enjoys his politics, is intrigued by interpersonal interaction and has a, possibly undue, interest in public administration I hate the…
Join the campaign against draconian disconnection
This is a guest post from Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns to protect rights and liberties in the digital age Will your MP be…
Super Tax
An almost invisibly small amount is shaved off each one of millions of transactions in the global banking system. No-one involved in the transactions has any cause to notice, but…
Guardian video – Brighton Pavilion: A Green leap forward?
The Guardian seem pretty insistent on not allowing me to embed this, so I'm going to have to take the extraordinary editorial step of imploring you to leave Bright Green…
Clarifications and questions on Green spokespeople
Well, this is not the blog I had intended to write today. Yesterday morning I was very pleased to bring you the current line-up of Green Party spokespeople. Some rising…
Breaking news – Green Party front bench reshuffle
Important edit - Have had urgent emails from the Green Press office disputing my reporting of this story. More details as I get them, but for the time being, what…