Our children need proper mental health provision
‘School days are the best days of your life’, the saying goes. But growing evidence is showing us that childhood is increasingly fraught with stress and anxiety. The pressure to…
To save the planet, we have to kill capitalism
Image credit: Neil Cummings, Creative Commons We’ve missed the chance to introduce steady change to save our society and our planet. Had we listened and acted in the late 80s,…
The grassroots green revolution is why I’m proud to have represented the South East in the European Parliament
It sometimes feels at the moment like the world is a dangerously depressing place. Fires continue to rage, air pollution is still killing thousands of Brits a year and many…
The truth behind the Greens’ performance in the General Election
Image credit: YouTube Screengrab The election is over. Social media is filled with rancorous debate - unpicking Labour’s defeat. But what of the Greens? How was this election for us?…
The Green Party’s future lies in a transformative, participatory programme of the left
Image credit: Bristol Green Party - Creative Commons There have been lots of different responses to the general election writ large. Mired in defeat and punch-drunk with the loss of…
It’s time for the left to move beyond Brexit
Late on election night, as I’d just arrived at the Banbury constituency count, I was feeling despondent. I’m sure this was a feeling shared by progressives across the country in…
This election has proven that we need to overhaul our rigged democracy
Image credit: Young Greens There we go. Another general election, and this time things have really gone wrong. Johnson and his gang of extreme right wing Tories have got the…
How the Green election campaign went from bad to worse – and where we go from here
Image credit: Creative Commons: Jwslubbock The dust has now settled on the most heartbreaking election since the last one. All the votes are now counted. And for the fourth election…
To stop the Tories, Labour has to embrace proportional representation
Image credit: Ryan Hodnett - Creative Commons The case for proportional representation (PR) has never been stronger. The Conservatives have won a huge Parliamentary majority on of the vote. This…