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Greens and Extinction Rebellion
Image Credit: Creative Commons: Julia Hawkins A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of chairing the workshop at the Spring Conference of the Green Party of England and…
My first Veg Festival: far from radical but a celebration for change
Last month I attended my first ever Veg Fest in Cambridge. An event organised by Cambridge Sustainable Food, a new alliance of organisations, promoting healthy and environmentally sustainable food. The…
Why we need to stop framing tackling climate change as a battle for our children
I wish I was given a penny every time someone started talking about saving the planet for our grandkids. I may actually have enough income to start my own Green…
BP: Very much business as usual
BP, the British oil major which produces million barrels of oil per day and brought in $ billion in profit in 2018, has been running a PR campaign under the…
The rising threat of Green Nationalism
A week ago, on August 3, a man walked into the parking lot of a Walmart in El Paso Texas. He opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle on the crowd…
Taking the crisis seriously – Greens and a progressive alliance
If politics moves from the edges, then the Green parties of these islands have, in many ways, had outrageous success over the last decade. In 2017, a Labour party which…
Nuclear – a dirty, dangerous and expensive waste
Nuclear power, since its first commercial application in the 1950s, has been thought to offer relatively clean and reliable energy in large enough quantities to meet humanity’s continually growing demand…
Voice from Vermont: What Murray Bookchin can still teach us about environmentalism
Like any stereotypical twenty-something I feel the compulsion to stay active on social media, browsing Twitter every day or so. Without fail every few days the same command keeps popping…
How should Labour approach Britain’s Trump?
Image credit: Andrew Parsons, Creative Commons The temptation to lump together Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as two sides of the same trans-atlantic political coin is understandable. Both are celebrity-politicians…
Breaking Boris Johnson – Lessons from Brecon and Radnorshire
Image credit: Chatham House, Creative Commons We are in volatile political times; the dramatic result in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election shows this more clearly than ever. But when co-operation…