Let Them Burn: The Logic of Capitalism Meets the Reality of Climate Change
Image credit: Pixaby user 'skeeze' In her piece titled “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein takes aim at the handful of fossil…
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…
Ed Miliband Shares Some of the Greatest Responsibility for Brexit – Can We Please Stop Trying to Rehabilitate Him?
Ed Miliband, former Labour Party leader. Image credit: flickr user Plashing Vole I often think back often to the optimism of 2010. Yes, Labour had lost an election,…
Political engagement in the UK: Starting a conversation
Part of Bright Green's new political engagement series As a species we face truly existential threats. The creeping financialisation of western economies is dampening innovation and progress whilst shackling the…
Scottish Independence must be about breaking from flawed economics
Scotland and UK flags, by The Laird of Oldham (jza84) on Flickr The lack of opposition to Conservative Mark Garnier’s suggestion that Scotland should become a “financial services hub" has…
Finland – the social contract to wreck the welfare state
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä - everybody's best friend? Photo: Ulkoministeriö Last week, over 30 000 people gathered in the centre of Helsinki, Finland to demonstrate against the Finnish Government's labour…
Osborne’s 2015 budget shows the Tories don’t care about young people
View image | Clifford Fleming, Co-Chair of the Young Greens, on what the budget means for young people. This budget, it seems, was an opportunity for the government to send…
Greens slam Osborne’s 2015 budget
View image | This morning, George Osborne unveiled the first Conservative government Budget since 1996, which he claimed was 'a plan for Britain for the next five years to keep…
Greek people reject austerity in decisive referendum vote
Mass demonstration for a 'no' vote at Syntagma Square, Athens. Photo: Wikimedia The people of Greece have voted to decisively reject austerity in today's referendum. Voters were asked whether to…
Green Parties support Syriza’s call for debt conference for Greece
Photo: Wikimedia. Leading figures from both the Green Party of England and Wales and the Scottish Green Party have voiced support for Greece to reject the proposal from the Troika…