The UK Government yesterday announced its 10-year drug strategy, which the Green Party has labelled as ‘punitive’, with front-bench discussions between the Conservative and Labour parties...
A recent CCC report has highlighted the disconnect between the Government’s climate promises and its action, noting that, on their current path, Ministers will see the UK contribute to 2....
Following pressure from the Green Party, the Home Office will soon require all councils to accept an allocation of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Green peer Natalie Bennett reflects on the Lords’ discussion of Policing Bill amendments, questioning the Government’s decision to attack peaceful protestors rather than protecting women ...
Joseph Eastoe considers the tests GreensCAN set for the summit, finding that, in most cases, it failed to introduce meaningful change. We should be wary, he notes, in believing that event...
The Green Party of Brighton and Hove is calling on the Government to implement a national scheme to house child refugees. Current legislation is voluntary, with many local authorities fai...
Reflecting on the Department for Education’s draft strategy for Sustainability and Climate Change, Chris Nash delves into what a Green climate education might look like, urging Greens to ...
The Green Party is calling on the UK Government to take urgent climate action in the wake of the failure of negotiations at COP26. The nation still holds the presidency for a further year...
Will the summit translate into meaningful mitigation of the climate crisis? According to Chris Nash, it doesn’t look like it. Whilst ‘capitalists play at being eco-activists’, he outlines...
Liz O’Neill, Director of GM Freeze, explains how gene editing is simply the newest iteration of genetic modification. As George Eustice ditches public protections, ignoring his own consul...
Green World Editorial Board's Francesca Gater accompanies activists on a 'toxic tour' of COP26, discovering that 'net-zero' may not be all that it seems. Reflecting on the actions of the ...
Responding to Boris Johnson’s Climate Finance package, which pledges only £1 billion per year in reparations, the Greens have labelled the Prime Minister’s approach as ‘misguided’ and ‘no...
Chris Nash examines the Autumn Budget, which he finds to be one of ‘catching up’, not ‘levelling up’. We must open the ‘green dispatch box’, he says, which would ‘unleash the energies of ...
Green Peers Natalie Bennett and Jenny Jones put forward the case for assisted dying ahead of the second reading of the Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Lords today (22 October).
The Green Party should build its strategy around progressive alliances and common ground, says Stephen Clark of the Compass Greens. The group have published a strategy paper ahead of the ...
Caroline Lucas MP recently responded to the Government’s Net Zero and Heat and Building strategies, calling them ‘deeply worrying’ and ‘nowhere near ambitious enough’, respectively.
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The Green Party has outlined proposals for a comprehensive carbon tax, aiming to totally eliminate the use of fossil fuels. Calling on the UK to announce such a tax at COP26, the Greens d...
Young Greens joined the ‘United Against The Tories’ protest outside the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester earlier this month. The Prime Minister is correct in saying youn...
Cllr Steve Hynd outlines Stroud District Council’s plans to retrofit, insulate and decarbonise its five thousand-strong housing stock, emphasising the difference that central government c...
