Global Environment Challenges — what are they; what to do? We know humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges: global warming, ecosystem disruption, biodiversity loss, and for many, increasing difficulty in meeting basic human… Read More »New Postgraduate Course: Global Environmental Challenges
It is possible both to argue that minimum pricing for alcohol is entirely right but that it is just only if we see it as part of a proper social contract. If the governing classes keep imposing policies on the poor but never for the poor, what we get is ‘minimum society’.
The power motive in the local government carve-up seems to be misunderstood, but the outcome is still a dangerous game for a LabourParty which has been revelling in the SNP’s own dangerous games.
Read More »It may be power not politics, but it’s still a dangerous game
An electoral system that ‘gives’ you councillors you don’t really want via a barely-proportional system no-one understands, and one that seems to favour candidates who come first alphabetically and can easily result in councillors with little link to you or your concerns cannot be a good system. The Single Transferrable Vote should be replaced, and with haste.
Read More »STV stinks (the electoral system, not the TV station)
The ‘political class’ has got to give up on its lazy recourse of blaming ‘apathy’ for low turnout. People turn out when they think they can make a difference. In most communities they know they can’t. So blame the system, not the people.
Nouns without verbs, verbs without nouns and adjectives where there don’t belong. These local election leafless are quite pretty, but they sure as hell don’t help you to vote…
Read More »Pretty – but pretty useless. Review of local election leaflets.
Union Solidarity International (USi) is a new international trade union initiative utilising and harnessing social media for campaigning.
Join the team from the National Galleries of Scotland and Visible
Fictions Theatre Company in a free performance about Jimmy Reid’s legacy
in Clydebank.
The idea that collusion with News International was entirely acceptable right up until the Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal is perhaps the weakest piece of self-justification in recent political memory
Read More »The ‘Wilson Defence’ of collusion with Murdoch shames him
Politics – an society – has got into an awful habit of ranking people according to their functional usefulness. And unfortunately young people aren’t all that functional useful, so we tend to see then in terms of problem. This can’t be how we relate to our own citizens.
Read More »It’s not young people that are the problem, its us