Politics

See also the old Activism & Politics

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

• BBC Daily and Sunday Politics
• BBC Scottish Politics

• rightsnet.org.uk - welfare rights

Scotland

Edinburgh

• Edinburgh City Council
  • http://www.edinburgh.public-i.tv/

• What Do They Know? Edinburgh FOI
• Occupy Edinburgh

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

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/

National

• BBC Democracy Live Scotland
• BBC Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
• Scottish Information Commissioner - Facebook
• The Electoral Commission: Scotland

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

Social media

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

Policy

• Scottish Policy Now
• European Public Sector Information Platform
• govcampscotland.com

• http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

• http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/163759/0044572.pdf

Law

• http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php?country=s

Parties

• Scottish Green Party
• Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Scottish National Party
• Scottish Labour
• Scottish Tory

Charities

• http://www.equality-network.org/
• http://www.scottishtrans.org/
• https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/
• http://www.pfc.org.uk/

News

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

• http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

Forums

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

UK

• 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/

• 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/

Pirate Party UK

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

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

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/

EU

• 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.reddit.com/r/worldnews/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
• Occupy

• http://www.transparency.org/

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

• http://www.globalsecurity.org/

Philosophy / policy

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

to break out http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/07/02/dragonbox-learning-algebra/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews

• 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

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359458

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

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

• http://www.networked-politics.info/

• 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

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

Geographical

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

Economics

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

• 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

• http://basicincome.org.uk/

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

Capitalism

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

Collectivism

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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
• http://www.id-coop.eu/en/KeyConcepts/Pages/Cooperativism.aspx

• 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

Reform and mixed

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

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

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

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

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

Activism

• http://www.revleft.com/vb/

• https://whyweprotest.net/community/

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

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