The government is pushing GMO deregulation at breakneck speed
‘The science is still far too uncertain, and what we know has not been properly considered or understood, by the government, or by parliament.’
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: Today’s Energy Bill debate in the Lords is more important than ever
The element of the Energy Bill that has got the most positive attention, and rightly so, has been amendments aiming to insert into the bill support for community energy schemes
What a small Ukrainian city can teach us about how to build thriving communities
This is an important lesson about surviving adversity, building local communities and thriving.
Natalie Bennett: Why COP27 must not abandon the 1.5C climate target
The claim “it is too late for 1.5 degrees” is simply wrong
Why are the public being made to pay for excessive corporate energy use?
‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
The four day week: Ending a century of economic ‘maladjustment’
“The four-day week gives everyone the gift, the resource, the power, of time, of choice”
The UK needs a ‘Just Transition Bank’ – not another bank striving for ‘growth’
‘No point in using bank funds to make the rich richer. No point in building new roads, or investing in fossil fuel when the carbon bubble looms every larger. Every point is focusing resources on projects that deliver for people and planet.’
Natalie Bennett: The Queen’s Speech was devoid of ideas on both the economy and environment
The emptiness of the government’s “programme”, a grab bag of philosophically incoherent and half-baked ideas, has been widely noted.
Why we need to introduce automatic voter registration
‘Individual electoral registration was introduced in 2014. It cleaned up the rolls to a degree, but also cleaned them out of millions who should have been there.’
