7 things we can learn from Handforth Parish Council
Everyone's talking about Handforth Parish Council! I suspect part of the reason this video so popular is not because people think it's absurd but because it's all too relatable. Everyone…
If the Tories cared about the rule of law, they’d overturn the dismantling of legal aid
The international affairs section of the Conservative Party's 2019 election manifesto talks of championing the rule of law. That’s not something talked about in the domestic sections, however, unsurprisingly perhaps…
The USA and climate change: Resource guide
Joe Biden. Image credit via Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons. After four years of Trump, the benchmark for action on the climate and ecological crisis was low. As a result, many…
Failure to equalise remote learning is a failure of the Conservative Party’s making
I think I’m on mute. I’m saying what I need to say, but it isn’t getting through. The meeting is continuing as if I wasn’t there, but I know that…
Where should Policy Fest sit in the Green Party’s broken policy making structures?
This year's edition of the Green Party of England and Wales' Policy Fest felt very different to previous years and, naturally, in depth interaction was limited. At the same time,…
Shop workers need a fighting, radical union
Anyone who has known me over the past 11 years knows my undying commitment to the Green Party of England and Wales as an electoral path to help move society…
Building a movement for climate justice requires recognising all our struggles are interconnected
This article is part of a series – The Decade We Must Win – examining the successes and failures of social movements and the left since the financial crash, and exploring how…
Who’s missing from the climate movement?
We all know who Greta Thunberg is, but do you know who Vanessa Nakate is? Last January, Nakate, founder of Fridays For Future Uganda, was famously cut out of a…
We can’t build our way out of the climate emergency
For far too long public debate on the sufficiency of climate action has focused on how quickly we are rolling out wind turbines, solar panels or even nuclear power. Such…
Where next for the student movement in 2021?
2020 saw the UK student movement truly demonstrate its strength. Rent strikes erupted in student halls up and down the country in response to exploitative accommodation contracts. Climate activists have…