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Adam Ramsay is co-editor of Bright Green, is involved with various campaigning groups, and works for student activist network People & Planet. He was a Scottish Green Party candidate in the recent Holyrood election.

Articles by Adam Ramsay

Time to elect the BBC Trust?

Adam Ramsay 9 October 2012

In the wake of the ourBeeb NHS report, how do we create accountability in the BBC? Few licence fee payers know about or understand the audience councils or the role of the BBC Trust - is it time to end government appointments and have BBC elections?

UKUncut: Fortnum and Mason trial B, the farce rolls on - all guilty

Adam Ramsay 13 March 2012

A report of the second trial of UK Uncut activists who occuped the high class grocers Fortnum and Masons in March last year, by a defendant in the first. It too seems certain likely to confirm that in a political case the UK's legal system starts from the verdict and tries to ensure nothing disturbs it, such as, for example, evidence.

17 things about this week's Scottish independence shenanigans

Adam Ramsay 16 January 2012
The Cameron government has called time on the Scotland's nationalist government and demanded a showdown on an independence referendum. But all may not be as it appears at first or even second sight.

From monotony to farce: my Fortnum and Mason’s trial

Adam Ramsay 22 November 2011
On the union-led 'March For The Alternative' in London last March, 145 protestors were arrested for peacefully occupying a luxury store. Here, one of the ten found guilty speaks out on his trial.

Has England's higher education come to this: “I was personally punched and thrown down the stairs by officers.”

Adam Ramsay 14 June 2011
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to the criticism of truncheons. The Liberal Democrats of all parties should oppose this.

Dishonours System

Adam Ramsay 12 June 2011
By giving one of Britain’s leading bigots a knighthood – by honouring someone who dedicates himself to victimising LGBT children – this Government has shown just how skin deep their support for equality is.

The SNP won through faith in a Scottish future; now they must make it real

Adam Ramsay 10 May 2011
The debate in England over Scottish independence misses the point. It was the SNP's ambition and positivity, not the independence issue, that won them the Parliamentary majority. Now they must be more bold still, and build a path towards a distinctively Scottish future

My day in the cells

Adam Ramsay 28 March 2011
An activist in UK Uncut's account of his arrest and jailing after the 26 March demonstration

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