“This is the expression of a generation at the end of its tether” – Young Greens
The Young Greens, the youth and student branch of the Green Party have today commented on the student protests in London. Sam Coates, co-chair was at Millbank yesterday, he said:…
Anger of a Doomed Youth
Scenes of 18 year olds smashing the windows of the Tory Party HQ were not what I expected today. I expected it to be big - possibly the biggest demonstration…
Kept your Promises? No you Haven’t.
On Sunday John Hemming, Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, claimed that not only had the Lib Dems stuck to their pre-election pledge to introduce a fairer system of university…
Shock Doctrine comes to Ireland
A video from today of Irish students protesting against cuts to education funding. Go 3 minutes in to see the police take their truncheons to a group of students who…
Lib Dem hijack is coming from inside the building…
The National Union of Students is rightly celebrated this morning for hijacking the domain name and pointing it to their video documenting Nick Clegg's betrayal over tuition fees. But there's…
Review of Higher Education & Student Finance in England
Half a century ago just 6% of young people went to university, paid for through general taxation. The other 94% subsidised those 6%, but that was OK because the people…
Conference fragments – young brilliant jobless Greens
Green Party conference last weekend was packed with articulate, hard working, passionate, and mind-blowingly intelligent young Greens - many of whom were unemployed, or underemployed. There was the guy who…
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…
Conference Fragments – Science Funding
On Monday the Green Party of England and Wales kick-started next year's review of science policy with an excellent fringe session on "Science Funding in an Age of Austerity" with…
Conference fragments – Right decision on home education
When I first joined the Green Party back in the eighties you could almost put money on any debates about education being dominated by discussions on home schooling and experimental…