Bright Green Q&A with Scottish Green Party co-leader candidates: Lorna Slater
The Scottish Green Party is currently electing two co-leaders for the first time in its history. We're speaking to each of the candidates and finding out why they're standing and…
What did the Green Wave in the European elections tell us?
Image credit: YouTube screengrab Cautiously high hopes powered the campaigns of Greens across Europe in the European elections. Since October 2018, the world has seen a veritable explosion of environmental…
Environment-trashing “game” meat has no place in England’s food strategy
Image credit: Gary Noon, Creative Commons Sometimes you see media campaigns and policy stances so ill-conceived, so clearly counterproductive, that you have to wonder what the person who came up…
Sadiq Khan must ditch the Silvertown Tunnel if he’s serious about the climate emergency
Image credit: Creative Commons, Centre for London The cancellation of a major urban road project – the M4 relief road in Newport, Wales – announced on 4 June, should embolden…
Who will be the next leader of the Scottish Greens? – UK Green news round up week 26
Maggie Chapman and Patrick Harvie seek to continue leading Scottish Greens Image credit: YouTube screengrab and Ric Lander, Creative Commons Nominations for the Scottish Green Party's co-leader election closed this…
The Brighton school fighting tooth and nail against becoming an academy
Image credit: Alex Sallons At a much-loved school, in the heart of a tight-knit community, in a northern suburb of Brighton, parents are furious and their children are upset. Teaching…
Ten things the Green Party should do to build on its biggest ever success
Image credit: YouTube screengrab 2019 has been an unprecedented year for the Green Party of England and Wales. In English local elections, we won more councillors than ever before -…
Green New Deals and new Green leaders – UK Green news round up week 25
Magid Magid and Alex Phillips set out how a Green New Deal could beat the far right Image credit: YouTube screengrab The Green New Deal is all the rage right…
The government is letting the fashion industry trash our planet
The proposals from Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee to begin to address the thoroughly outsized contribution of the fashion industry to the trashing of our planet were modest. If they could…
Never trust a COP: How the left should respond to COP26
Image credit: COP Paris, Creative Commons The UK will host COP26, the 26th round of the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, in November 2020. Jeremy Hunt is pleased. Buzzfeed reported…