The BBC has a Green blind spot
An image from the Green Party's election broadcast for the 2015 UK elections, titled 'Change the Tune', and portraying the leaders of the Tories, Labour, the Lib Dems and UKIP…
Young Greens across Europe are mobilising to fight for our future
The Green Party bloc at last Sunday's climate demo in London. Photo: Green Party of England and Wales. Earlier this week, world leaders arrived in Paris for the COP21…
Osborne’s tampon tax windfall: disgusting, cynical and dangerous
On Wednesday, in an austerity budget designed to make the poor wince and the struggling think they were let off lightly, George Osborne announced that not only would he continue…
Greens and trade unionists pledge direct action to save UK workers’ rights
In October Scottish Greens passed an emergency motion to support direct action against the trade union bill, if it should pass. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. As the UK Trade Union Bill…
Who exactly were the “Green surge”?
The figures are frequently thrown around Green circles – 14,000 members at the start of 2014, 67,000 by the General Election this year. The ‘Green surge’ is fairly well documented,…
Why I shut down a coal mine to expose the ties between politicians and fossil fuels
Photo: End Coal Now Last Monday, me and a group of 20 others shut down a coal mine. Waking at 5 am, laden with D-Locks, arm tubes and some pretty tasty…
Young Greens highlight ‘radical possibilities’ of UK’s EU membership as Caroline Lucas joins official ‘In’ campaign
Mini Europe. Photo by Smabs Sputzer. The Young Greens of England and Wales have called for young people to “fight for the EU” in the forthcoming referendum, saying that…
Why it’s vital that Greens make our voice heard in the EU referendum
Photo: Wikimedia At the Green Party’s Autumn Conference this past weekend, I stood up and spoke, for the first time, to a mass of assembled party members. I was proposing…
Corbyn ducks the question: On the EU referendum, Labour and the Greens
How Green is the European cake? Photo by Jeremy Corbyn, new leader of Labour and much-beloved of many bright Greens (though see this view of why we all still have…
Why Greens Should Support Corbyn’s People’s Quantitative Easing
Green Infrastructure QE was the idea of using public money to build highly insulated homes and to convert buildings to be more energy efficient. (Photo: BedZED, the UK's largest eco-village,…