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 in three years Jodrell bank is under threat of closure.
It’s not clear from their article whether that means their new visitor centre or any or [...]

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 had no proper debate in the commons, during what’s known as it’s wash up period. Though 236 MPs voted at the third reading [...]

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 cheat or steal.
The authors of the study construct a highly speculative model of “moral balancing,” postulating that having made one ethical decision we feel licensed [...]

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 to conduct a full review of the relevant section of our, recently renamed, Policies for a Sustainable Society document. Jim and Stuart have blogged on [...]

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 voting to disconnect innocent people from the internet, because of evidence that one of them may have infringed copyright?
The chances are that they will be doing [...]

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 describe as ‘balance’ has been a matter of concern for some time to me.
The strategy deployed by climate change denialists is interesting. It has focused [...]

The surrealist overdose

This is a guest post from Naomi Mc, who blogs about science, politics and gender at Vagina Dentata.
On Saturday at 10.23am hundreds of people across the country opened a small vial of pills and swallow them all. There was a group of 42 of these people in Edinburgh (video), but no emergency services were called [...]

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 most of my figures, and there’ll be a few here, suggests the typical affluent person uses around 195kWh/day of power (250kWh/day for an American). Of [...]

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 communal and reciprocal ownership and the latest attempts at enclosing public space.
2.Wikipedia
So it turns our writing a couple of thousand words on technology and it’s [...]

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 the 3rd millennium. It sounded like a good idea; after all, as Engels said:
“in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which [...]

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