The Far-Right Deep-Green Hoo-Ha

The British National Party (BNP) causes much anxiety to today’s mainstream politicians. Almost entirely unable to take the immigration debate head on, Britain’s parties have, for the last few years been wholly mealy-mouthed about their policies. The juggling act...

The Greens and the Bell-Curve

A little article on the Times website caught our eye. Cleverer children are more likely to vote for the Green Party or the Liberal Democrats in a general election than other parties when they become adults, research suggests. The study, by the University of Edinburgh...

The Queen of the Greens

Ben has an article in today's Spiked on our favourite Green, Caroline Lucas, who was elected as the Party's leader last Friday.  The UK Green Party – formally the Ecology Party (1975-1985), formally PEOPLE (1973-1975) – once rejected the conventional party structure...

First Against the Wall When the Revolution Doesn't Happen…

The Green Party's other principal speaker is Derek Wall. The party have been unable to decide on a leader over the years (they're choosing one right at the moment), and so have had two: Caroline Lucas and Derek Wall - one for girls, and one for boys. No, we're not...

The Party Without People

Caroline Lucas again again. In the New Statesman today, talking about the Green Party’s upcoming leadership contest, she says, There is another crucial reason why Britain needs Green leadership now. Voter turnout at all elections has been falling. Fewer than one in...

The Relentless Morbidity of Environmentalism

It’s Caroline Lucas again. Caroline Lucas MEP, who is expected to be elected as the Green Party's first leader later this week, said: "People will be literally dying from cold this winter while companies like Shell and BP are making record profits – that outrages...

Green Party Candidate Outed

Peter Tatchell, militant gay rights activist from the 1980s is reinventing himself as a Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Oxford East. On commentissimplyabsurd, he writes today about a looming global oxygen shortage. Compared to prehistoric times, the level of...