Save British Science
Amid the fuss this week as the coalition government announced that NHS direct would be scrapped and replaced with the cheaper NHS111, the Telegraph reported that for the second time…
Why I’m no Longer Listening to Spotify
Last week saw the passage of the Digital Economy Bill, now the Digital Economy Act. As parliament was winding down before dissolution the government forced through the bill, which had…
Are working class people just nicer?
Much bemused wryness in lefty workplaces across the land as an article in The Guardian goes slightly viral by reporting that people who buy ethical products are more likely to…
Green Party Conference Days 3&4: A sensible health policy
After a certain degree of criticism last year around the time of the European elections, much of it fair, over some of our policies related to healthcare it was decided…
Join the campaign against draconian disconnection
This is a guest post from Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns to protect rights and liberties in the digital age Will your MP be…
Let’s have some crime denialism
The ever interesting Sunny Hundal points out on CiF today that the BBC gave yet more air time to climate change denial on Newsnight last night. What the mainstream media…
The surrealist overdose
This is a guest post from Naomi Mc, who blogs about science, politics and gender at Vagina Dentata. On Saturday at hundreds of people across the country opened a small…
201st Decade Technology Part 3 – Transport after oil
And so for our third, and for now final, tech review we head back to something physical and perhaps more stereotypically green. David McKay, who I'll continue to source for…
201st Decade Technology Part 2 – Free Knowledge and Free Culture
For part 2 of our review of the the 201st decade best new technologies we turn to the internet and the forefront of the battlefield between a new form of…
201st Decade Technology Part 1 – How to Power the Planet
As my inaugural, and hopefully not last, contribution to Bright Green, it was suggested I write up a list of the ten most important inventions of the first decade of…