Green party
Pickles’s bribe to councils is a white elephant
Rupert Read discusses the flaws, in both aim and execution, of Eric Pickles’s plan to return to weekly bin collections.
Lucas: Drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas sets out her calls for a new approach to dealing with drugs, and says drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one.
Vote 2011: Green campaign diary
Green Party councillor Rupert Read kicks off Left Foot Forward's dispatches from the front: the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
AV is a small but significant step in improving our political system
Green Party London Assembly member Darren Johnson is supporting a Yes vote on May 5th because it will mean people can start to vote for what they really believe in.
Lucas launches campaign to end £16bn tax evasion scandal
Green party leader Caroline Lucas will table a new Tax and Financial Transparency Bill in Parliament today, to tackle what she describes as "the UK's billion-pound tax evasion scandal", reports Shamik Das.
It’s time pay inequality became a priority
Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, asks: Should we give equal priority to income inequality and tackle the pay of people at the top, in the belief that reducing the income gap will lead to economic, social and environmental justice? And can we find we right policies to achieve this?