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...
From David Attenborough's centenary to Jane Goodall's obituaries, tributes to two of our greatest naturalists barely mentioned their lifelong work on population. Jonathon Porritt asks why the conversation remains so taboo — and what the cost of that...
Jonathon Porritt supports an open letter opposing attempts to criminalise “Globalise the Intifada”, arguing that such efforts threaten free expression, academic freedom and democratic protest.
A week ago, the Green Party achieved a quite extraordinary breakthrough, with its1.95 million votes, as well as two members of the Welsh Senedd, doubling its previous highest vote in 2023. The BBC’s national vote projection translating these...
Jonathon Porritt examines systemic failures within the UNFCCC and IPCC, arguing that consensus politics and flawed risk modelling have dangerously undermined global climate action
Using Danone’s Harrogate Spring Water controversy as a starting point, Jonathon Porritt explores the deeper failures of corporate sustainability, greenwashing and the political systems enabling them.
On the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, Jonathon Porritt examines the ongoing decline of nuclear power, highlighting its redundancy and vulnerability in a rapidly changing energy landscape.
