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100 Days of Solid Ideology
Posted on August 18, 2010 by Peter McColl | No Comments
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
Posted on August 12, 2010 by Peter McColl | 4 Comments
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?
Posted on August 12, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 1 Comment
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 – [...]
Adrian Ramsay for Deputy Leader
Posted on August 5, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 8 Comments
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 relation). [...]
A Big Tent we’d all feel at home in
Posted on July 30, 2010 by Peter McColl | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Vote For Your Favourite Political Blogs
Posted on July 25, 2010 by Admin | 1 Comment
With less than a week to go till polling closes for Total Politics’ Best Blogs Poll 2010 we thought we’d take a moment to publicise the event and encourage all our thousands of readers to cast their votes. Last year there were just two Green blogs in the top 100 (Jim Jepps’ The Daily (Maybe) [...]
‘we have to do something about the economy’
Posted on July 21, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | No Comments
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 the year after a crisis than in a decade of stability. We have seen this to astonishing effect over the last two months: the speed [...]
Gillard: Australia’s left-winger for the right?
Posted on July 8, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 3 Comments
Australia suddenly got a new Prime Minister on the 24th of June, resident Aussie expert Nishma Doshi agreed to write for Bright Green about her first impressions. It was clear that Dramatic Irony was going to kick Kevin Rudd in the face when he announced on 60 Minutes that Julia Gillard was going to be [...]
Cuts to legal aid risk its collapse
Posted on July 7, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 4 Comments
a guest post by Pete Speller, who blogs at the dead goat – where this originally appeared. Access to legal representation in the UK is a right, one that won’t be completely abolished without a serious outcry (I would hope at least), but the quality of that representation is something that is seriously under threat. [...]
Will Obama guaruntee Palestinian security?
Posted on July 6, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | No Comments
So, Barack Obama has said he won’t ask Netanyahu to do anything which compromises Israeli security. This initially seems a perfectly reasonable guarantee. But, the obvious question is, will he guarantee the Palestinian people the same? That only seems fair. So presumably that means no more Israeli check points? These are clearly a compromise to [...]
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