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…
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…
This article was first published on the LSE blog I recently debated with Roger Scruton at the LSE on this question (you can listen to the podcast). This short article examines a couple of my main conclusions and from my…
This article was first published on the Liberal Conspiracy website. Yesterday morning, a campaign was launched aimed at banning advertising directed at children. Why do the remarkable range of signatories we got for this letter believe I that such a…
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…
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…
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…
This article was first published on Green Words. There is a deep need for a deep reframing of politics. Politics needs to be understood as about making the world a better place, about saving our common future. But there is…
This article was first published in Open Democracy. Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas this morning welcomed the formation of a new green think tank, to be called Green House. I chaired the launch meeting this morning, in my…
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…
This article was first published in Open Democracy. I’ve made the case for AV in detail here and here. I thought I had worked out all the pro-AV arguments. But sometimes a question comes along that makes one realise that…
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…