The Government’s cut to bereavement benefit will hurt those in real need
UK Government changes to bereavement benefit will hit 75% of families that rely on the scheme. Image by Helen Taylor. The death of a family member is always difficult, the…
Youth turnout in the 2017 general election- what was going on?
Student protest in 2014. Photo credit: flickr user Chris Beckett Creative Commons license: While the opinion pollsters are still crunching the data, initial evidence suggests that there was a…
Trust and integrity have returned to British politics
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the Stop Trident rally at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 27th February 2016. Photo by Garry Knight, public domain. As election night progressed, I started noticing that…
Where to go, what to do? Greens and the Corbyn challenge
Mark Ballard was Green MSP for Lothian from 2003-2007. He writes here is a personal capacity. When I left the Labour Party in the early nineties and started to put…
Vote 2017: The Results
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Go Green – 5 ways to convince your friends
So you have decided you’re going to vote for the Green Party on June 8th – now you just need to convince your friends and family to do the but…
30,000 excess deaths a year: what this election is really about
Photo by Salim Fadhley, Flickr user. Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License. It has been argued during this election campaign that Labour and Corbyn have the right ideas about the economy,…
No time to waste: to fight climate change we need a Labour Government
Jeremy Corbyn speaking with Naomi Klein and others in Paris during the 2015 climate summit. Image by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It’s 2017. You live in a dystopian future where tiny…
What’s the point of Trident? The Prime Minister hasn’t made up her mind
Image by Mentat Kibernes, Flickr user. Discussions about Trident always seem to take place in a hypothetical world where the only countries involved in a nuclear war are the UK…
Progressive alliances are more than formal pacts: this is a culture shift
Photo credit: flickr user Matito under Creative Commons license Number of seats the Green Party will stand aside in to help unseat the Conservatives: 24. Number of seats other progressive…