Die Grünen – 20 years past the crossroads
The German Greens - changing with the times. Photo by Michael Reuter The German Green Party, or to give it its full name, Alliance ’90/The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen), deserves…
WTF is wrong with education?
It is hard to sum up succinctly the multitude of problems facing the educational system in the UK. One need only think of trebled tuition fees, removing the caps on…
We belong here! Hungarian activists fight back in refugee crisis
Romani activists from the Ide tartozunk! (We belong here!) network show their support to refugees in front of the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary and Austria are in spitting distance from each…
Ignored, insurgent, and back again – the first study of the Green Surge
Left parties across the UK took up the mantle of progress in the last elections. The ‘Green Surge’ may seem like a distant memory to many Greens now, four months after…
Congratulations Jeremy Corbyn—now it’s time to change politics from the ground up
View image | As you might have heard if you exist in social media or care about politics at all, the Labour Party did a thing today that until just…
Jean Lambert MEP: the refugee crisis demands a coherent and strategic response
We can either throw our hands up at overwhelming human misery, or we can rally and do something – quickly. On Monday Britain announced meagre plans to accept refugees from…
Congratulations to Sadiq Khan, but only Greens oppose all London airport expansion
View image | Congratulations to Sadiq Khan. His selection adds another interesting candidate to the race to be London’s next Mayor. The Green Party candidate Sian Berry has a…
Scottish Young Greens threw a tea party for the Queen today. Here’s why.
At some point today (around according to the Telegraph), Elizabeth Windsor will become the longest reigning monarch in British history. The Scottish Young Greens heard that she’d be in Edinburgh…
Sian Berry: If elected London Mayor, I will support a resident-led housing revolution
I was selected as Green candidate for Mayor this week, and the pledges I made at the announcement at Earl’s Court put the Green Party on the front line of…
8 reasons Greens should stand in Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections
Police officers during the 2013 anti-fracking protests in Balcombe, West Sussex. Photo: Crawley News. Adam McGibbon, Caroline Lucas’ campaign manager for the General Election, and now the Greens’ London Mayoral…