A Green hierarchy of needs—time to prioritise?
Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. So many newspaper stories about the Greens, but it's always the zany ones people remember: ban cars, ban the Grand National, ban Beyonce. These were the favourites that…
To practice what we preach as Greens, we need to pay our deputy leaders
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, with deputy leaders Amelia Womack and Shahrar Ali. Photo: Yorkshire and Humber Green Party. Vote in the prioritisation ballot for Green Party conference here In…
When will journalists understand the Greens?
The Green Party held its biggest conference ever at the weekend with 1,300 attendees, far more than ever before. Also attending were an unprecedented number of journalists, many of whom…
Green Party conference forced to change venue due to #GreenSurge
The Green Party of England & Wales' spring conference in March has been forced to change venue, in order to accommodate the thousands of new members the party has gained…
Conference shows Scottish Greens are a force to be reckoned with
Last Thursday, the people of Clacton dealt a massive blow to the establishment by voting UKIP re-electing their former Tory MP. After having the media spotlight on them for such…
Will Duckworth – the Green Party finds a new star
Will Duckworth was on the registration desk at conference yesterday. “I volunteered to do it before I won the election” the new Green party deputy leader apparently said. “I'm not…
Bright Green Live: the Green Party and the anti-cuts movement
Coming to Green Party (of England and Wales) Sping Conference this weekend? The first ever Bright Green Live event will be at the conference, this Saturday. To discuss the role…
Conference fragments – young brilliant jobless Greens
Green Party conference last weekend was packed with articulate, hard working, passionate, and mind-blowingly intelligent young Greens - many of whom were unemployed, or underemployed. There was the guy who…
Conference Fragments: Engaging Gets Easier
By Kieran Anderson, who you'll find on twitter at @andersonkieran This was my second time at conference and when arriving, even in my somewhat dazed state having come direct from…