Politics

an old mess!

to sort

• http://creativecitizens.co.uk/

• http://www.nesta.org.uk/news/new-radicals-2014

• http://www.our-great-ideas.org/

• http://www.creatingplacesscotland.org/

Scotland

See also Scotland

Government

• The Scottish Government, Twitter

Parliament

• The Scottish Parliament, Twitter
• They Work for You Overview of the Scottish Parliament

Information

• Scottish Information Commissioner enforces Scotland's freedom of information laws and tells people about their rights to ask Scottish public authorities for information.

Media

• http://www.youtube.com/user/ScottishParl

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scotland/scotland_politics/
• BBC Democracy Live Scotland
• BBC Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
• Scottish Information Commissioner - Facebook
• The Electoral Commission: Scotland

• http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics

• http://constitutionalcommission.org

• http://www.indymediascotland.org

• http://caledonianmercury.com/

• http://scottishroundup.co.uk/

Social media

• inagist.com: scotland
• inagist.com: edinburgh
• r/Scotland/

Policy

• Scottish Policy Now

• Policy Scotland, Research and Knowledge Exchange,

• IPPR - the Institute for Public Policy Research, is the UK's leading progressive thinktank

• European Public Sector Information Platform

• govcampscotland.com

• Public Contracts Scotland - This portal gives free access to contract opportunities in Scotland

• Participation and Engagement in Politics and Policy Making

• Scottish Government Guidance on Framework Agreements

• Reform Scotland is a public policy institute or 'think tank' which was established as a separate Scottish charity, completely independent of any political party or any other organisation and funded by donations from individuals, charitable trusts and corporate organisations. Its objective is to set out policies in Scotland that deliver increased economic prosperity and more effective public services based on the traditional Scottish principles of limited government, diversity and personal responsibility.

• Republic Scotland is part of the wider Republic campaign. We want to see the monarchy abolished and the Queen replaced with an elected, democratic head of state. In place of the Queen we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but representing the nation independently of our politicians.

• http://nationalcollective.com/

• http://www.scotlink.org/

• http://www.iagr.ee/

Charities

• http://www.equality-network.org/

• http://www.scottishtrans.org/

• https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/

• http://www.pfc.org.uk/

• http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/

News

• http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics

• http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/politics.html

• http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

• The Future of the UK and Scotland is a programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It brings the best of UK social science to the debate about Scotland’s constitutional future and its implications for the rest of the UK.

Forums

• Scottish Politics & News
• Scotland.com: Scottish Politics
• Scotsgait: Scottish Politics
• Out Scotland: Scottish Politics and Independence
• Scotster: Scottish Politics

History

• http://www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk/wb/

Local

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Scottish_Local_Authorities

• http://www.cosla.gov.uk/

Edinburgh

See also Edinburgh

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Edinburgh

• Edinburgh City Council
  • http://www.edinburgh.public-i.tv/
  • https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC

• What Do They Know? Edinburgh FOI
• Occupy Edinburgh

• http://edinburghactivecitizens.wordpress.com/
• http://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/

• Edinburgh Council How the council works
• CllrTweeps Edinburgh Council members on Twitter

• Edinburgh Association of Community Councils
• Edinburgh Neighbourhood Partnerships
• Edinburgh Tenants Federation

• Muirhouse Salvesen community council
• Southside Community Council

• Edinburgh Anarchists
• The Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust) Twitter

Parties and movements

• Scottish Liberal Democrats

• Scottish National Party

• Scottish Labour

• Scottish Tory

• Scottish Socialist Youth

• http://occupyedinburgh.org/category/news/

Scottish Green Party

• Scottish Green Party
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party

• https://www.facebook.com/ScottishGreens

• http://brightgreenscotland.org/

Co-operative Party

• http://party.coop/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Party

Pirate Party UK

• http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page

• Pirate Party UK forum
  • Pirate Party UK forum (Scotland)

UK

• https://www.gov.uk/
• https://www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works

• https://www.gov.uk/government/policies
• https://www.gov.uk/government/get-involved

• https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
• https://www.gov.uk/government/topics
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications
• https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics

• United Kingdom Parliament

• http://www.legislation.gov.uk/

• http://www.writetothem.com/
• https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
• http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/

• http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
• http://www.fixmystreet.com/

• http://openlylocal.com/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/bbc_parliament/

• BBC Daily and Sunday Politics
• BBC Scottish Politics

• The Electoral Commission: UK

• http://www.pfc.org.uk/
• http://www.activistslegalproject.org.uk/

• r/ukpolitics/

• http://www.electionleaflets.org/

• http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/
• http://www.afed.org.uk/

• http://www.modernliberty.net/
• http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/
• http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/

• rightsnet.org.uk - welfare rights

Media

• BBC News Front page
  • BBC News Video stream

• BBC: Daily and Sunday Politics

• http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive

• The Independent
• The Guardian
• EurActiv.com
• euronews | europa
• euronews | world
• New York Times Wire
• Wikinews

• El Reg Biting the hand that feeds IT

• The Big Project News
• Chipwrapper Search UK newspapers

• BBC News: The Editors del.icio.us

• http://the-libertarian.co.uk/

Prediction

• http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

• http://www.iagr.ee/

Europe

• European Parliament, Twitter
• Scotland Europa Promoting Scotland's interests in Europe.
• East of Scotland European Consortium A local government joint committee.

• http://www.euronews.com/europa/europe/

• Scottish MEPs
• EurActiv EU news & policy debates

• https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en
• http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/en/content/dg-connect

• http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule.cfm

• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4755.en.html

• http://www.copyrightreform.eu/

• http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-5000100.htm

USA

• http://memeorandum.com

• http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos
• http://www.colbertnation.com/video

• http://wwww.librenews.us/

• http://www.baudrillardsblender.com/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870078

• http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/
• http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

World

• http://www.transparency.org/

• United Nations News

• http://www.undemocracy.com/
• http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/

• Occupy

• http://www.globalsecurity.org/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty

Philosophy / policy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_politics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement

• Progressive Politics for a New Era - Jon Cruddas MP visits the RSA to discuss unleashing creativity in a fast paced world, to enable people to shape a better future for themselves and others.

• http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html via andy ducker
• http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/we-already-tried-libertarianism-it-was-called-feudalism

• http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stop-churches-marrying-anyone-says-bisexual-british-political-leader080113 - secularism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

• http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemotherapy-that-costs-70000-in-the-us-costs-2500-in-india/274847/ - patent reform

• The Four Types of Activist
• The Rise of the Post-New Left Political Vocabulary

• http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Related_projects

• http://www.networked-politics.info/

Economics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_economy - a third sector among economies between the private (business) and public sectors (government). It includes organizations such as cooperatives, nonprofit organizations and charities. Social economy theory attempts to situate these organizations into a broader political economic context. In particular it investigates the economic viability of cooperatives and the value of non-profit organizations and charities in traditional economic theory.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_ideology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_model
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economics_models
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economics_theorems
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economic_theories

• http://www.neweconomics.org/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics
• http://www.zcommunications.org/topics/parecon

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sector

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindful_economics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip

• https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309882

• http://ouishare.net/
• http://polyeconomy.info/
• http://moneyless.info/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499409
• http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100

• Computing the Perfect Model: Why Do Economists Shun Simulation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097734

• http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/09/goldthorpe-social-supermarket-community-shop-food-poverty

• Moneyless.org - A Rich Life without Money. Tips, Blogs, Stories, Books

Capitalism

• http://activatecomix.com/162-1-1.comic

Reform and mixed

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power

• http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/publications.asp

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814383

• http://www.compassonline.org.uk/about/

Basic income

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

• http://basicincome.org.uk/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7016436
• https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money-to-everyone/31639050894-e44e2c00
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8184265

• Confessions of A Job Destroyer [1]

Democracy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_procedure

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_politics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
  • https://participedia.net/en
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy - before the Commies screwed it up
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_democracy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Democracy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_direct_democracy
• http://liquidfeedback.org/

• http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home

• http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/10/what-does-confidence-and-supply-mean

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_choice_theory
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Choice_and_Individual_Values
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

Voting

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_theory

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_criterion
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_paradox

• http://blog.forcerank.it/counting-votes-is-hard [2]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting

Geo/eco

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_(politics)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_left
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_libertarianism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology

Collectivism

See Living

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarianism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

• http://www.uk.coop/

• http://www.id-coop.eu/en/KeyConcepts/Pages/Cooperativism.aspx

• http://party.coop/

• http://scotland.party.coop/
  • http://www.party.coop/files/2011/07/Scottish-Manifesto-2011.pdf

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cooperative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_cooperative

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_federation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_wholesale_society
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_and_employment_co-operative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retailers%27_co-operative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_cooperative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_cooperative / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_farm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_cooperative

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_banking
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union

• http://www.governancehub.org.uk/

• http://www.governancecode.org/

Libertarian socialism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialist

focus on individuals and bottom-up group association, better social process ownership

trend in anarchist circles to hate communists because their style of process fucked up leftism in russia and thus for people other places, though they really just hate big C communists, and this is somewhat legacy groupthink. see the existence of libertarian communists

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lamborn_Wilson

• http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power - direct reformist

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism_(Political_Philosophy)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontalidad

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

• http://redecentralize.org/

Anarchism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

• Radio 4: In Our Time - Anarchism
• YouTube: Noam Chomsky - What is Anarchism?
• http://www.chomsky.info/books/state01.htm

• http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Main_Page
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/anarchismsubreddits

• The principle of federation and the need to reconstitute the party of revolution - P.-J. Proudhon
• Peter Kropotkin - His Federalist Ideas
• The Anarchist Sociology of Federalism

• https://soundcloud.com/jamie-heckert-1/love-freedom-a-gentle

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/10/11/the-tea-party-is-giving-anarchism-a-bad-name/

• http://dingpolitik.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/anarchisms-other-scene/

• http://www.socialanarchism.org/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

Communism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Communism

• https://www.youtube.com/user/brendanmcooney

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism

Mutualism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
  • http://www.mutuo.co.uk/about/

Syndicalism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

Agorism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism - a libertarian social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution. It was first proposed by libertarian philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III in 1975, with contributions partly by J. Neil Schulman.

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Agorism

Libertarian municipalism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin - social ecology vs. deep ecology, social anarchism vs. lifestyle anarchism, anarchism vs. communalism debates.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology
• What Is Social Ecology?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism
  • http://www.social-ecology.org/1991/04/libertarian-municipalism-an-overview/
  • http://www.zcommunications.org/assessing-libertarian-municipalism-by-michael-albert

• What is Communalism? - The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism
  • "Where liberal thought generally reduced the social to the economic, various socialisms (apart from Marxism), among which Kropotkin denoted anarchism the "left wing," dissolved the economic into the social."

• http://www.social-ecology.org/2002/09/harbinger-vol-3-no-1-the-communalist-project/
• http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/gp/perspectives20.html

• http://new-compass.net/
  • http://new-compass.net/articles/has-harvey-become-libertarian-municipalist

Sociocracy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy
  • http://www.governancealive.com/
  • http://www.sociocracy.info/
  • http://www.socionet.us/
  • http://blog-business-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/john-buck-dynamic-self-governance.html

Law

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_positivism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_realism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_law
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_law

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems

• http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/ [3]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentric_law

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/7823572/An-Enquiry-into-Anarchist-Jurisprudence

Engagement

• http://gigaom.com/europe/online-crowdsourcing-can-now-help-build-new-laws-in-finland/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_(decision_making)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

• http://www.involve.org.uk/

• http://blog.okfn.org/2014/06/25/gitlaw-how-the-law-factory-turns-the-french-parliamentary-process-into-300-version-controlled-open-data-visualizations/

• https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/
• http://www.demsoc.org/
• http://www.demsoc.org/projects/open-policy-making/
• http://openpolicy.demsoc.org/

Activism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha

• http://www.revleft.com/vb/

• https://whyweprotest.net/community/

• http://www.climate-justice-action.org/

Culture

• Humanist Society Scotland - Facebook, Meetup.com

• Canongate Community Forum: Save Our Old Town The Canongate Community Forum is campaigning against plans to demolish listed buildings and people`s homes on the Canongate, the lower part of The Royal Mile in Edinburgh`s World Heritage Site. - Facebook

• Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
• Food Not Bombs - Facebook

• Project Chanology - edinburghlulz.com, Anti-Church of Scientology - Facebook

Environment & related

• Edinburgh Climate Network
• Friends of the Earth Edinburgh
• Edinburgh People & Planet

• Transition Edinburgh
  • PEDAL -> Portobello Transition Town Tackling Climate Change One Town at a Time.
  • Transition Edinburgh South
  • Transition Edinburgh University
• Edinburgh Transition Towns Heart & Soul Group

• Climate Camp Scotland - Facebook, Twitter
• Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
• Coal Action Edinburgh - Facebook

• Sustainable Consumption Opportunities Today Edinburgh and Lothians

• We ♥ Leith - Twitter
• greener leith - Facebook, Twitter

• Piper School, home and community climate change action

• Eco-Congregation Scotland

• YActivism Edinburgh & Lothians

Sex, sexuality and gender

• Equality Network Working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality and human rights in Scotland. - Facebook, Twitter
• Stonewall Scotland For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality - Facebook

• Queer Mutiny Edinburgh An alternative to Edinburgh's commercial gay scene - Facebook, MySpace
• Polygender Scotland - Facebook

• The Order of Perpetual Indulgence (Scotland) For the expiation of stigmatic guilt and promulgation of universal joy.

• Edinburgh AnarchaFeminist Kolektiv - Blog
• Edinburgh Feminist Network - Facebook (discussions are women only)
• Reclaim The Night - Facebook

Other

• Edinburgh the Fur-Free City - Facebook

Technology

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEN4XNth61o

• https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine

Audiobooks/podcasts

to look into properly at some point in the future..

• http://librivox.org/anarchism-and-other-essays-by-emma-goldman/

Comedy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_from_the_Ministry