We must break the power of the rich. It’s time to #StopTheRot.
The #StopTheRot campaign kicked off on Sunday. Organised by Open Britain and calling for an end to the rotten politics of the UK, backing a petition to rewrite the ministerial…
Less confrontational, more diverse and more nuanced politics: Caroline Russell on PR in London
London Assembly Member and Islington councillor Caroline Russell has a unique perspective on Britain’s elections – she is elected with First Past the Post on Islington council, and a proportional…
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…
Greens should campaign to abolish Westminster
Outside a bar in the gangster-run border town of Mukachevo in Western Ukraine, I asked a clutch of young men if they spoke English, and what they thought of their…
The Green Party has a PR problem
If you spend any amount of time talking to people from the Green Party of England and Wales about electoral success, it is only a matter of time before ‘PR’…
Challenging the “toffs and the cronies” – an interview with Molly Scott Cato
Molly Scott Cato is a familiar face among Greens. She's part of a small number of people - less than a dozen - that have a degree of name recognition…
A Green New Deal needs public abundance
The McDonald’s close to my apartment is closed. It’s a shame, because it was basically our neighbourhood’s most important social centre. Before Montreal went into lockdown, seniors spent whole days…
The next leader must make the Greens the party of true democracy
From his first London mayoral success to his victory in December, Boris Johnson has been consistent in one thing. In 2008, he campaigned in the London suburbs with a simple…
Neoliberalism has given us a broken democracy. It’s time to fix it.
It may be a massive cliche, but it bears repeating. The novel coronavirus has swamped our lives. The pandemic has brought illness, disruption, job losses and underemployment, and death to…
Democracy is just an add-on for the European Commission’s “Green Deal”
The European Commission has launched its proposals for a “Climate Pact” as part of the European Green Deal, an initiative - it claims - that “aims to engage citizens and…