Writings

Greens – the UKIP of the left?

This article was first published on the Open Democracy website. Over the past 12 months, there have been repeated calls for a ‘UKIP of the left’. Including from prominent voices such as John Harris in the Guardian, from the New…

Re-nationalise our railways!

This article was first published in The Ecologist. My day started at 6 am, while it was of course still dark. Dressed smart for the cameras, I cycled off to Norwich station for a series of interviews – with BBC…

Guardians of Britain's future generations?

This article was first published on the Open Democracy website. Last week in Parliament the new ‘Green House’ thinktank launched with a report I’ve authored on how to restructure our democratic institutions to take account of those who are not…

A burning issue: embodied emissions

This article was first published on the One World Column blog. The evidence I submitted has been published on parliament.uk I recently submitted evidence to a key Parliamentary Select Committee on a key issue of our time: the huge increase…

Are we a consumerist society – or a 'producerist' society?

This article was first published on the One World Column blog. We are thoroughly used now to thinking of our society as a ‘consumerist’ society, and of ourselves as, above all, ‘consumers’. This seems to many of us now quite…

The British should heed Free Libya’s call for a no fly zone

This article was first published in Open Democracy. Britain’s responsibility to protect the Libyan people from Gaddafi’s crack-down is unavoidable. We must not be so fixated on our past mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan that we fail to help Libya…

Could a Green Norwich change local rule across the UK?

This article was first published in Open Democracy. The Green Party in England could be on the verge of another breakthrough, after the election of their first MP to Westminster this May. Already the joint-largest party on Norwich City Council…