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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Good idea badly implemented?

A flagship transport scheme designed to increase physical distancing and reduce exposure to air pollution in the post-Covid era has come under fire from campaigners who claim it is counter productive. Concerns have been raised that measures of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods designed to relieve pressure on the transport system are actually causing gridlock through poor design and implementation.

Q&A with Labour MP Clive Lewis

Green World talks to Labour MP Clive Lewis about working cross-party cooperation and democratic reform

A new way of taking on the Murdoch empire

Rupert Read explains why he is calling for a boycott on speaking to the Murdoch-owned press

Signs saying 'Refugees welcome' at a protest.

Why are migrants coming to the UK?

Zoe Gardner explains why migrants are making the treacherous journey across the Channel to reach the UK

Freight-to-rail must be part of post-Brexit, post-Covid future

Sarah Gleave calls for the government to invest in moving freight by rail to reduce HGV emissions

Black Trans Lives Matter: Shared history of fighting for equality

Susie O’Connor looks back at the trans people of colour activists influential in the early LGBT+ rights movement

Who is eligible for the new ‘Health and Care’ visa?

Immigration lawyer Lauren Butler explains who will be able to apply for a ‘Health and Care’ visa

US Presidential election 2020: An uphill struggle for the Greens

Alan Story speaks to Green US Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins and the electoral mountain he faces

Reforming the house

Green Party House of Lords nominee Molly Scott Cato outlines her plans should she be asked to enter the second chamber

Brighton and Hove holds first Climate Assembly

This week saw the first meeting of the Brighton and Hove City Council’s new Climate Assembly, bringing 50 residents together to discuss transport and how the city can reach its climate go...

Cllr Amy Heley |

Justice

Climate Change

Housing

Environment

| Mon 28 Sep 2020

Our enemy is not only the virus

The government’s management of its promised ‘world-beating’ test and trace system has been a shambles. However, beneath the incompetence lies a more sinister tale of contracts for governm...

Larry Sanders |

Health

Politics

UK Government

| Thu 24 Sep 2020

Silvertown Tunnel must be cancelled now

Campaigners outside City Hall protesting the Silvertown Tunnel

Originally intended to cost £600 million, the cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel is set to spiral to £2 billion. Green Party Transport Spokesperson and London Assembly Member Caroline Rus...

Caroline Russell |

| Wed 23 Sep 2020

Book Review: Riders on the Storm

Molly Scott Cato reviews Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh.

Molly Scott Cato |

| Mon 21 Sep 2020

What was behind the Green wave at the French municipal elections?

In June 2020, the French Greens (Europe Ecologie/Les Verts) swept to power in a number of large cities and towns in France on a wave of public support for climate and environmental action...

Charlotte Soulary |

| Mon 14 Sep 2020

Stroud makes climate emergency progress

In the latest of Green World’s What has changed? series on the progress of local authority climate emergency plans, Stroud Green councillor Simon Pickering recounts the passing of the cli...

Simon Pickering |

| Thu 10 Sep 2020

No atrocities: Ecological reasons why black lives matter

Green Party member Rosey Thomas Palmer looks at how ecology must support equal rights for diverse communities and reformulate itself to support social justice aims as well as ecological o...

Rosey Thomas Palmer |

| Thu 10 Sep 2020

Planning reforms clear ground for US trade deal

Julian Mellor explores how the government’s proposed planning reforms could hand power to US developers by removing the decision-making power of local planning committees.

Julian Mellor |

| Wed 9 Sep 2020

Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest

With reports of heavy handed policing of Extinction Rebellion protests and rumours that the government plans to reclassify the group as an ‘organised crime’ organisation, our right to pro...

Kevin Blowe |

| Mon 7 Sep 2020

Belarus should be a warning to the UK

“In a tweet about the protests in Belarus, former Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said ‘They are demanding something better – why aren’t we?’.” Student and Green Party member Matthew Staton ar...

Matthew Staton |

Democracy

Europe

Elections

| Thu 3 Sep 2020

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