“Human and environmental health are inextricably connected – ceasing deforestation will counter climate change and help avoid future pandemics.” Green Party member Nick Bowett outlines wh...
"It is undeniable that not everyone has been affected equally and being white, male, middle-class or middle-aged has had certain insulating effects." Green World’s women correspondent Cha...
Following the Queen’s Speech delivered in the House of Commons yesterday (11 May), Green Peer Natalie Bennett highlights the lack of ‘fair, regulated, non-exploitative’ employment laws me...
“Politicians express their Antigypsyism in different ways – even during election campaigns – by promoting Antigypsy policies.” Virgil Bitu describes how GRT communities are viewed by poli...
“Penny Kemp’s visit to Taiwan in March 1996 can be taken as the starting point of Taiwan’s Green diplomacy.” Dr Dafydd Fell of the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS...
Viva!, a UK-based vegan charity, has been campaigning for decades on the major issues surrounding veganism, including health, nutrition, animal welfare and environment. Siobhan Dolan, Mar...
“If people can’t believe what the Prime Minister is saying because lies are interspersed so freely with the truth, then trust in our democracy is undermined.” Green MP Caroline Lucas expl...
“Criminalising street harassment will benefit women today as it shows such behaviour is no longer considered acceptable and punishes those responsible.” Green World’s women correspondent ...
“The message is such that people are allowed to discriminate against Gypsies, Roma and Travellers because there is nobody to stand by us and there is no government or institution to repre...
“How could the UK Government ever argue that the migrant healthcare workers who have saved thousands of lives during a pandemic are not ‘deserving’ in the system they have created?” Aaron...
“Too often we forget that protests are one of the reasons why we have many of the freedoms and rights we now cherish.” Kevin Blowe, Campaigns Coordinator for the Network for Police Monito...
"The 6th Carbon Budget , in SLACC’s opinion, undermines the assumptions used by Cumbria CC to argue that emissions from the ‘end use’ of the coal in steel making are zero." Maggie Mason f...
“At long last, the case turns the tide against a gig economy that too often profits from rolling back hard-won rights.” Transport Spokesperson and London Assembly member Caroline Russell ...
Following the passing of a reparations motion at a Bristol Council meeting yesterday (2 March), Green Councillors Cleo Lake, Eleanor Combley and Jerome Thomas reflect on the historic mome...
“Some marginalised communities may find themselves criminalised simply for following their traditional way of life.” Former MEP Catherine Rowett explores the issue of criminalising trespa...
“Criminalisation has too often led to a pervasive callousness towards people struggling with addiction. That can’t go unchallenged or people will keep dying.” John Finnie MSP calls on the...
David Newman, environmental campaigner and author of Everything is Connected, revisits the famous speech by Scottish trade union activist Jimmy Reid in 1972, and how its message about way...
“The Green Party has long held the policy that until Palestinian rights are addressed, there can be no peace, justice, demilitarisation or democracy.” Annie Neligan outlines her stance on...
