A-Z of why these cuts are mad
I just tweeted an A-Z of why I oppose public spending cuts. Here it is. a) the biggest waste in our economy is unemployment not spending b) we've lower debt:GDP…
Check out this new No Cuts film
The Bright Green crew have teamed up with various friends to campaign against cuts. The excellent Pete Speller did the animation and all for this film. Enjoy.
George Osborne: Move over Keynes – The Shock Axeman Cometh
This is a cross post of a piece I was asked to write for the excellent folks at According to the Sunday Times Rich List, the richest 1,000 in Britain…
Check out our random cuts generator
The team here at Bright Green have got together with various friends to try and make the case against the economically illiterate cuts to jobs and public. Check out our…
Japan v Cameroon: Colonialism’s laboratory
I wrote this piece for the World Development Movement World Cup site - to which the Bright Green team will be contributing throughout the tournament. In 1959 my grandfather was…
Union News
UCU We'll start with my own union, UCU, who's annual congress happened recently. I couldn't make it myself but as well as attacking the government's points based immigration system and…
Laws & Osborne target my generation
So, George and David have announced where they are going to start their 5 year assault on the British economy. And the answer is pretty clear. First up against the…
No Shock Doctine petition launched – Anti-cuts students disciplined
We've now launched the website and a petition for our campaign against a "shock doctrine" for Britain - that is, the use of the recession to force through right wing…
No shock doctrine for Britain
The economic case against short term cuts has been widely made. So much so, that a large majority voted in the election for parties opposed to cuts this year. In…
Why we should be talking about Land Value Tax
The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city ... watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more…