From suffragette arson plots in 1913 to climate confetti in 2023, Sir Jonathon Porritt explores the long tradition of protest at Wimbledon — and the political hypocrisy that still defines how we treat dissent today.
The dust has just about settled since Labour’s ‘golden nuclear moment’ laid out by Rachel Reeves in her recent Spending Review. Plans for the monstrous Sizewell C took another step forward, nudged along by the offer of another £14.2 billion of...
Ed Miliband, Secretary of State at DESNZ, is still dead set on spending billions of pounds on Carbon Capture and Storage – on top of all the billions of pounds that he's now decided to hurl into the UK's nuclear black hole! This will not help...
Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a calculated assault on environmental protections, masquerading as reform. Starmer and Reeves have chosen to side with volume housebuilders and concrete over communities and conservation – knowing full...
Our deeply compromised and unprincipled Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has FINALLY – woken up to the true depravity of Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing Ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir – without whose support Netanyahu’s...
Food, Farming and Fertility: Chemical Connections Ultra-processed foods now make up over 50% of the average UK diet — and they're being linked to rising chronic disease, falling fertility rates, and tens of thousands of premature deaths each year...
A notable day on Saturday: the final manifestation of Just Stop Oil out on the streets of London, blocking traffic. I was asked to say a few words at the celebration that followed – this (plus a few embellishments!) is what I said:
Revisiting the Case for Tidal Energy on the Severn in three Parts: The Severn Estuary Commission’s new Report. Tidal Energy on the Severn vs. Nuclear Power. The RSPB: Irretrievably Stuck in the Mud. Part 1: The Seven Estuary Commission’s...
When the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was going through Parliament in 2021, there was huge public concern, expressed in a nationwide Kill the Bill campaign. Labour’s opposition to the Bill was lukewarm at best, as if Labour MPs...
"Earlier today, Just Stop Oil announced it will cease all campaigning activities at the end of April. This decision follows the UK government's new policy against North Sea oil and gas developments, a victory influenced by Just Stop Oil's impactful...
