The government is in denial over the US
Green Party peer Natalie Bennett argues that “the West” as a unit with shared values and principles is dead
Natalie Bennett
Baroness Natalie Bennett is a Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward, and the former leader of the Green Party of England & Wales.
Natalie Bennett: The state of our NHS is down to long-term political failure
The Green Party holds that the profit motive should have no place in our health care – in any form of care
The silent tragedy of silica dust and the need for immediate action
One thousand deaths a year among workers deserves a lot more attention
Natalie Bennett: Schools, prison, welfare: they’re still Victorian in style
Social innovation is possible. It is happening in a fast-changing, multi-challenge world of environmental and social crisis. Just not in the UK.
We need to get real about the risks and possibilities of self-driving cars
‘If you put self-driving into the equation, you potentially massively increase the climate impacts.’
Even more powers of domestic surveillance? It is over-the-top already
We have savage reductions in the right to protest; we have deeply concerning directions of travel for democracy and freedom of speech.
The fight against Big Food is just getting started-Farmers and consumers are trapped in a deeply unhealthy system
There’s also, of course, undeniable evidence about the major contributions of the food system to the climate emergency and nature crisis
The Tories have chosen to put profits of oil and gas companies ahead of the common good
The fossil fuels giants will sell the oil and gas to the highest bidder – and the global price will be the price we all pay should it make its way into our energy system.
The British military should follow the US lead in investigating sexual assaults
The military has a huge problem with its culture and justice system
Here’s a world-leading step the government could take to tackle tax evasion
With the cost of corruption put at 5% of global GDP annually, this is a global scourge