A battle over the right to protest is being fought in parliament this week
The sheer number of amendments and likely votes on the Public Order Bill has led to the Lords taking an extra day for Report Stage, next Monday. The opposition last…
What happened in the House of Lords in 2022?
As so many reviews of the year will say, what a year 2022 was. And not in a good way. From the perspective of the House of Lords chamber, it…
What does the House of Lords do? – Interview with Green Party peer Natalie Bennett
On the second episode of #BrightGreenLive, our editor Chris Jarvis interviewed Green Party peer Natalie Bennett. During the interview, they discussed what the role of the House of Lords is…
Liz Truss handing out more peerages would ‘further damage Westminster’s legitimacy’, political reform campaigners warn
Political reform group the Electoral Reform Society has said it would "further damage Westminster's legitimacy" if Liz Truss creates a new batch of peers. The group has also called for…
The Environment Bill needs to go much further
Amendments to Bills can be opaque, impenetrable things: “delete the word ‘may’ and replace with ‘must’” and such like. Even with the increasingly standard practice of including a sentence of…
It’s time for the government to stop panicking and start planning
It has felt like a very, very long six months. But that’s how long it is since March, when the House of Lords, its older members absent, its atmosphere distinctly…
Our approach to science research funding needs an overhaul
An awful lot has happened in the past 12 months, but when the House of Lords today sat down on Wednesday to consider a report from August 2019 on the…
Sending an elected politician to the House of Lords is the “right thing to do” – an interview with Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper is no stranger to Green Party of England and Wales internal elections. He has twice challenged for the deputy leadership - in 2016 and 2018. Both times, he…
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…
6 reasons to vote for me in the Green Party House of Lords selection
I have been deputy leader since 2014 and have built and created the role to make it a dynamic force that is more relevant on the political agenda than ever…