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'Gaining Brighton Pavilion made us fragile'

Adam McGibbon was the campaign manager for Brighton Pavilion in 2015 as Caroline Lucas set out to defend her parliamentary seat for the first time. With a majority of just 1200 votes and a recent important council by-election loss, winning was by no means guaranteed.

Climate voting campaigns could damage the Green Party

Michael Munson, PPC Eastbourne Green Party, analyses the risks of Greenpeace’s Project Climate Vote and the Just Vote campaign

Apple Day to save the world

Green Party member Juliette Harkin recounts Rockland St Mary with Hellington parish village’s community Apple Day

Proportional representation: Changing British politics for the better

Why the voting system of single transferable is the way to go

Spotlight

Green voices needed across Parliament

Using the Arts to bring about widespread environmental action

It is time to use the arts to inspire hope on the climate emergency, rather than terror

‘Enemies of Society’: How the media portrays climate activists

An analysis of mainstream media discourse in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy suggests that the othering and demonisation of climate activists are neither new nor unbiased

US nuclear bombs set to return to RAF Lakenheath!

The Green Party is deeply concerned by reports that the United States intends once again to station nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath

Autumn Conference 2023

Autumn Conference 2023 round-up

The weekend saw motions passed banning ‘High Carbon Adverts’, the four-day working week, HS2, and more

Ellie Chowns, Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsay and Siân Berry Autumn Conference 2023

'Four for 24': Only Green MPs will stand up for solutions to UK’s housing crisis

Greens unveil target candidates for the next election, with a plan to ensure everyone can afford a quality home

Wales will be running 'biggest and boldest' General Election campaign yet

Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter’s speech from the party conference in Brighton this past weekend

Features

What lessons for German Greens after the Bavarian election

On 8 October, Bavarians and Hessens went to the polls after a toxic campaign where nothing seemed off limits

Barry and Vale seal 50th Anniversary time capsule

The Barry and Vale Green Party in Wales has sealed its 50th Anniversary time capsule

Survey finds that Brits demand more water refill stations

70 per cent of Brits would use a reusable water bottle if refill stations were more readily available

Wales will be running 'biggest and boldest' General Election campaign yet

Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter’s speech from the party conference in Brighton this past weekend

50 Years: Celebrating our anniversary

European Election of June 1989 Green Party

We gave hope to Greens across the world

Former MEP Jean Lambert shares memories of one of the Party's greatest electoral breakthroughs

Jonathon Porritt 50th Anniversary Ecology Party

‘A lot of people thought we were a flash in the pan’

Jonathon Porritt recounts events surrounding the 1979 General Election when the party made a breakthrough by qualifying for its first party political broadcast

If you want to change something you’ve got to change the politics

Dr Mitya Pearson on how decisions taken by early leaders set the Party on its current course

No stone was left unturned

Darren Johnson recounts the work behind his election breakthrough in Lewisham in 2002

Teddy Goldsmith, direct action and an early lesson in realpolitik

One of the party's longest-standing members recounts how he got involved as a teenager

The start of PEOPLE

In the first in a series of Anniversary Stories, one of the ‘Gang of Four’, Lesley Whittaker, outlines events leading up to the fateful decision to set up a new political party

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