Is the UK’s hydrogen strategy propping up the gas industry?
In August, the government finally published it’s hydrogen strategy with great aplomb. For several years the government has made it clear that it sees the nascent hydrogen industry as a…
From Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia – it’s time to end Britain’s lethal arms peddling
Politics has its cycles, not just elections, but events that come around again and again. But that doesn’t make it repetitive. No event occurs twice in the same political environment,…
Womack and Omond would enable the Greens to transform UK politics
Which party has changed British politics more during the last decade? UKIP, or the Lib Dems? Who had more of an impact, Nigel Farage, or Nick Clegg? Neither is exactly…
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay tick all the boxes we need in a Green Party leader
So, voting in the elections for the new Green Party of England and Wales leader is underway! We have five choices to put in order of preference, three standing for…
“Jet Zero’s” techno-optimism is a flight of fancy
‘Jet Zero’, the UK government’s proposed aviation strategy, is not just a moronic oxymoron but a failure to conceive how to bridge the gap between aviation’s growth aspirations and the…
The solution to the social care funding crisis could also solve the housing crisis
Social care has been one of the biggest public policy questions of the last 10 years. The issues go back well before 2010, though. Proposals to solve the social care…
The new Green Party leadership needs to put forward a vision which is socialist to its core
The Green Party has a strong track record on standing up for the rights of young people and students. From calling for the scrapping of tuition fees, to the commitment…
I was wrongfully arrested with Extinction Rebellion
Solicitors advise people not to write articles like this. They could “prejudice your defence”, which is why you won’t find many. I have just returned from two days of protest…
Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer give the Green Party its best chance of putting its policies into action
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” When Carla Denyer repeated that quote from Ruth Bader…
Book review: The Inside Out of Flies by Erica McAlister
When I was aged 10 or so, I was fascinated by lungfish. This pioneering group that built an evolutionary bridge between sea and land life, survived the extinction of the…