A satirical letter from a newly-installed Labour Prime Minister to Zack Polanski, proposing they split the country's problems between them: the Greens take every difficult cause, Labour keeps the easy wins.
Our new Chancellor once ordered civil servants to bury a cost-benefit analysis showing a £705 million gain from energy efficiency. Nothing since suggests he's learned anything.
Eight weeks before the Labour Party conference, Andy Burnham faces the same moral dilemma that broke his predecessor. This is what he must now do.
From the Cockroach Janta Party in India to Nepal's electoral earthquake and Albania's Flamingo Revolution — young people are refusing to accept the betrayal of their future. The old talk of resignation; Gen Z is delivering revolution.
I've been called a "doom merchant" for fifty years. But refusing false hope isn't the same as dismissing real alternatives. Two thinkers show where genuine hope lives: in eudaimonia, not consumption.
Ticked off for claiming the climate crisis is in a league of its own, I've been weighing the odds on nuclear war and AI. Where does the point of irreversibility lie for each?
For anyone who cares about climate, nature and justice, it can feel like a relentlessly bleak moment. But three encounters in a single week — the Ashden Awards, a walk wearing the Coat of Hopes, and a visit to Farms for City Children — were enough...
: On one side, four young people jailed for trying to stop a genocide. On the other, young conscripts ordered to carry it out. The same generation, two moral universes — and a justice system that knows exactly which one it fears.
Labour's failure isn't just about policy or personality. It's ideological. From Blair to Starmer to Burnham, the neoliberal thread runs unbroken — and without democratic renewal, there's no progressive coalition worth the name.
With the Makerfield by-election on 18 June, Jonathon Porritt sets out where progressive voters go next — and why the Green Party may now be the only force capable of building the coalition needed to keep the right-wing front out of power. Part I of...
