Sweden Update: Greens hold position of unprecedented strength
by Dominic Hinde The day after the Swedish general election, the results were the most read story on the BBC News website. The entrance of the hitherto unknown right-wing Sweden…
The Future of Green Blogging
We’re delighted to have done so well in the Total Politics Blog Poll. We’d like to thank you for helping us to finish 61st in the Total Politics poll of…
Conference Fragments – Mobilising the Jilted Generation
I spoke, along with Shiv Malik of 'Jilted Generation', at the Young Greens fringe on 'mobilising the jilted generation'. Shiv spoke eloquently about how Thatcherite liberalism has screwed today's 20…
In Praise of Politics
We've been accused recently, and perhaps with some cause, of focusing too much on the machinations of the English and Welsh Green Party and not enough on what's happening up…
Green lessons from Down Under
by Kevin Meaney (@oxkev) it first appeared on his blog I grew up and worked in Australia before moving to the UK 13 years ago. Having recently become more actively…
100 Days of Solid Ideology
The coalition is 100 days old. And what a hundred days it’s been. They’ve ended the huge waste of building new schools. They’ve said they’ll end detention of children of…
Democratising and professionalising our Party further
Our guest writer is Cllr Rupert Read In my 'series' here on BG (see here) exploring the direction our Party (GPEW) needs to take, I have covered a little about…
Reaching beyond the core
Our Guest writer is Chris Williams, who has run a number of Green Party election campaigns, and was manager of the Norwich South General Election campaign. This is the latest…
Where next for Welsh politics?
By Sam Coates, who works for the Green Party in Wales Now that Labour is out of power in Westminster Wales has an interesting medal, it hosts the highest level…
Greens need to get out of the Comfort Zone to win
In the 2009 Rectorial election at Edinburgh University New Labour grandee George Foulkes was on his way to defeat by Iain Macwhirter. Foulkes couldn't escape the consequences of voting for…