Politics

See also the old Activism & Politics

• BBC Daily and Sunday Politics
• BBC Scottish Politics

• rightsnet.org.uk - welfare rights

Scotland

Edinburgh

• Edinburgh City Council
• What Do They Know? Edinburgh FOI
• Occupy Edinburgh

National

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

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/

Parties

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

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

Education

• Education Scotland .gov.uk
• Engage for Education
• Glow
• Role of ICT in learning

• http://www.computerbasedmath.org/resources.html

UK

• The Electoral Commission: UK
• r/ukpolitics/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/

Pirate Party UK

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

EU

• Scottish MEPs
• EurActiv EU news & policy debates

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

World

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

• http://www.transparency.org/

Philosophy / policy

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.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

Radical

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

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

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

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

Libertarian

Often associated with classical liberalism, but the word was created as using "anarchism" was banned??

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

Reform and mixed

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

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

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

Technology

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

Audiobooks/podcasts

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

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