Aaron Swartz, open data and online civil disobedience
I never met Aaron Swartz, didn't know him. But that my Facebook timeline is full of the most brilliant activists I know grieving his premature death shows how brilliant he…
Crunch the news returns
Long term followers of Bright Green may be aware that over the summer, along with our friends at Lampoon Apathy, we co-hosted a show at the Edinburgh festival: Crunch the…
The easiest way out of the collapse would be to increase benefits
The first thing I think of when the government cuts benefits is my friends – friends already forced to their knees by massive youth unemployment, now being kicked in the…
Mexico to Canada, indigenous North Americans take brave first steps into a new era
By Liam Barrington-Bush As the Mayan calendar came to a close yesterday, signifying the end of what the ancient empire had described as ‘the fifth era,’ Indigenous peoples of North…
Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall remain here.
On Thursday Greek police raided a long-standing squat in Athens, arresting 8 people - who have been charged with felonies relating to the construction of explosives. The squat had been…
Autumn statement: welfare is the most important infrastructure we have
George Osborne has always reminded me of the boys I used to debate against at other minor public schools. So, in true teenage debate competition fashion, let's start with a…
Time to end corporate personhood
People, it’s time to get real. The rich don’t want to stay rich because it allows them to consume vastly more resources than you and me. Vast wealth does not…
10 things we should be debating in the police commissioner elections
I don't have a problem with electing police commissioners. I basically think that if we're going to have people in any positions of power, they should all be elected. I…
Oppression, Individual Rights and the Rights of Society
When is oppression not oppression? Well, when the rights of a society as a whole outweigh individual rights apparently. Or at least that’s what Professor Mona Siddiqui seemed to be…
Inflation, stagnation and speculation
What happens if you cross the scandal of food speculation with the stars of BBC3’s The revolution will be televised? In the unlikely event that you were wondering, the result…