Another step forward in Green Party science policy
The basic aim of our Science and Technology policy is to encourage and promote research, development and application of science and technology which will: Increase knowledge and understanding Help to understand and address the major environmental threats such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity losses. Contribute to a better quality of life for all the [...]
Conference Fragments: Engaging Gets Easier
By Kieran Anderson, who you’ll find on twitter at @andersonkieran This was my second time at conference and when arriving, even in my somewhat dazed state having come direct from the Norwich Election count, I had this sudden moment of panic, what on earth was I doing coming back to this hugely complex unstoppable juggernaut [...]
Conference Fragments: Democracy in Action
by Rustam Majainah Those of you who remember your schooldays will probably be familiar with the concept of Model United Nations, Mock General Elections and other events, set up to try and attract young people to politics by showing them its not like BBC Parliament all the time. You go to them acting as if [...]
Conference Fragments – My First Time
On Thursday last week, Ash Haynes was elected coucillor for Town Close Ward in Norwich. It was her 20th birthday. The next day, she went to her first party conference. My conference experience began at 12pm on Friday, when I wandered in tired and confused after the Norwich local election counts. My first impression was [...]
Conference Fragments – Science Funding
On Monday the Green Party of England and Wales kick-started next year’s review of science policy with an excellent fringe session on “Science Funding in an Age of Austerity” with Imran Khan of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), science writer Frank Swain and Stuart Parkinson of Scientists for Global Responsibility, chaired by the [...]
Conference Fragments – Backing the AV Bandwagon
in our first of a series of conference fragments, Spin Pitman is glad he was persuaded to back AV At the Green Party autumn conference last weekend we passed a motion to commit the Party to supporting the proposed referendum on AV next May, as a step towards implementing PR at Westminster. The debate was [...]
And they called us anti-science
Today Vince Cable continues his attack on science, and academic research more generally, as he announces we must abandon research which is “neither commercially useful nor theoretically outstanding”. Cable will tell us that he favours “ration[ing] research funding by excellence” and that we must “screen out mediocrity”. Which, as William Cullerne Brown points out, is [...]
In Praise of Politics
We’ve been accused recently, and perhaps with some cause, of focusing too much on the machinations of the English and Welsh Green Party and not enough on what’s happening up here in Scotland. It’s certainly true that in the run up to GPEW conference next month, and with two of our editors and most of [...]
Why the Green Party should elect a ‘Shadow Cabinet’
This guest post is by Jonathan Kent, and was first published on his blog, The Headstrong Club. This September, when the Green Party of England and Wales meets for the first time as a party represented at Westminster, members will be asked to vote on a proposal to elect a Green Shadow Cabinet. In some [...]
Adam Pogonowski: Derek Wall for Deputy Leader
Guest writer Adam Pogonowski is a Cambridge City councillor, and blogs at adampogonowski.blogspot.com. Here he explains why he’s backing Derek Wall for Deputy Leader; you can read Adam Ramsay’s case for re-electing Adrian Ramsay (no relation) here. The role of Deputy Leader is to build and maintain grassroots support for the Green Party, and to [...]
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