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More members, more Councillors, more Green success
By Rupert Read It wasn’t a surprise that the most heartfelt responses to my Bright Green blog-post (the responses by Jane Watkinson & Tom Chance) have been about what we…
A Big Tent we’d all feel at home in
I had the pleasure to attend “The Big Tent” Festival at the weekend. The Big Tent is Scotland's environmental festival, which attracted 10,000 people over the weekend. Despite having meant…
Greens need to resist mainstream pressure for political ‘justification’…
There are two key paragraphs from Rupert Read’s recent article, which addresses the impressive growth of the Green party membership and its implications, I wish to highlight: “We need to…
How the left won the argument on inequality… and where it got us…
People's politics are very often located very deep in their psychological makeup. I am someone who finds it very hard to see the worst in human character. I am therefore…
‘we have to do something about the economy’
The idea that big problems require big solutions is not entirely rational. But it is psychologically compelling. And so it is that politicians can secure radical policies more easily in…
Event Horizon: Beyond the 2010 Election
You probably think you know the implications of the General Election. I think I know the implications, or at least some of them. But I’m not sure. And therein lies…
Lefty co-operation – dragging the debate back onto our turf
I was asked to write something for the excellent folks at Broad Left Blogging. Here it is, cross-posted. When Philip of Macedon – father of Alexander The Great – fought…