Now we know the victims of Annabel Goldie’s class war
I mentioned in my post yesterday the Tories’ calls for cuts to various popular initiatives in the Budget; I didn’t, of course, mean that list to be exclusive. No one has the time to list all the cuts the Conservatives want. Another key one had the limelight today, as Scottish Tory finance spokesman Derek Brownlee [...]
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 [...]
From Thieves of Baghdad to Pirates of the Caribbean?
The day after the Asian tsunami, tourism companies sent in armed security guards to rope off areas of land they had long coveted. Parents were physically stopped from entering their homes to collect the corpses of their children.
We must hold back those who would use this as a chance to prize open what’s left of the Haitian economy, and like Iraq, New Orleans, and Sri Lanka, gut what remains of a country that’s too long suffered from colonial rule.
My interest in Budget boredom
It has been said that the Scottish Budget debates generate much heat but little light. Today we can expect little of either. I have been struck by the lack of interest generated in what ought to be the most important political event of the Scottish calendar. Disbursement from the public sporran is by far the [...]
How the Irish Greens got f**ked by Fianna Fáil
Possibly the first ‘viral’ moment in the Dáil (Irish Parliament) was provided by the Green TD for Dublin Mid-West, Paul Gogarty. It’s certainly eye (and ear) catching: After nearly 20 years of building support the Irish Greens/Comhontas Glas entered Government as junior coalition partners to Fianna Fáil in mid-2007. The 2007 election had been a [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to Bright Green
Like many other places, Scotland has a proud history of social progress. The Highlands were the home of the first socialised medicine in the UK. For generations Scottish universities were more democratically controlled and publicly accessible than those in England. This tradition cannot be defined by a shopping list of policies. Rather, it is about [...]
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