Welcoming a Better Nation

James “Two Doctors” Mackenzie, Jeff “SNP Tactical Voting” Breslin and Malcolm “Malc in the Burgh” Harvey are well known faces in Scottish blogging. And now, they have launched a collaborative blog – Better Nation.
For those of you who don’t know of them, James is press officer for the Green MSPs, Jeff has recently left [...]

On Scotland’s People…

This article is cross-posted from Lallands Peat Worrier

The Scottish Household Survey “is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland” which is “designed to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviour of Scottish households and individuals, both nationally and at a [...]

Total Politics Poll 2010

Total Politics have released the Green results of their annual poll (see below).
So, thanks to everyone has written for us, commented, read pieces, and, of course, voted for us since we launched six months ago or so. Also congratulations to the lovely Jim Jepps from The Daily (Maybe) – deservedly the king of Green blogging, [...]

Climate Camp tackle Cairn energy

Edwin Morgan on the Scottish Parliament

Edwin Morgan and Jimmy Reid have both died, of late – two great Glaswegians. Here is Edwin Morgan on the Scottish Parliament (also tweeted by James from Two Doctors).
For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004
Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; light of the mind, shine out!
We have a [...]

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 asylum seekers, and explained that this will be by speeding up deportations. And they’ve delivered their promise to be the ‘greenest government ever’ by supporting [...]

Make Renewables a Charitable Purpose and Reap a Community Windfall

There’s been a lot of attention paid to community owned renewables in Scotland, with the Dancing Ladies of Gigha generating power and saving money for the community. Many other mainland communities have also been investing in power. Sadly, none so far has been urban. This is partly because of difficulties with the Castlemilk project in [...]

Bond markets boom – why are we cutting?

The Tories originally told us that they had to make cuts because we were borrowing too much. The argument was that the bond traders, from whom we were borrowing, would take fright and insist that the government pay higher interest rates. This was always largely bollocks, for a number of reasons.
One of those – pointed [...]

Adrian Ramsay for Deputy Leader

The Green Party of England and Wales has leadership-team elections every two years. This time, the two incumbents are up for re-election. Caroline Lucas is unchallenged, but her running mate, Adrian Ramsay, is up against Derek Wall. Here is a list of reasons why I will be voting to re-elect Adrian (who is no [...]

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 to go for the past couple of years it took an invitation to speak at an event to get me there. Those who know me [...]

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