Jonathon Porritt welcomes Ed Miliband’s strongest commitment yet to a genuinely just transition – 400,000 green jobs, skills investment, and support for workers leaving fossil fuels – while warning that Labour’s nuclear obsession could still derail...
Jonathon Porritt dissects the staggering imbalance in the UK’s energy spending — £5.1 billion for nuclear versus £3.5 billion for everything else. He exposes DESNZ’s nuclear fixation, political complacency, and the vast opportunity costs now robbing...
🌞 🌞 🌞 🌞 🌞 This is going to be a blog: that is 100% upbeat and positive that only mentions the climate crisis in passing that is not undermined by fantasy-driven techno-fixing that is 100% inspired by Bill McKibben’s new book ‘Here Comes The Sun’...
While I was sitting there at my desk pulling together all the different elements in ‘Love, Anger & Betrayal’, Liz Smith was out on the streets filming Just Stop Oil activists ‘crossing the line’ right from the start (with Marcus Decker and Morgan...
Here we go again: the annual end-of-year COP fandango is upon us. This particular Conference of the Parties (signatories to the original Framework Convention on Climate Change back in 1992) happens to be in Brazil — generally deemed to be a more...
The UK’s nuclear strategy is spiralling out of control. Soaring costs, unsolved waste, growing cyber threats, and a dangerous link to our weapons programme — Jonathon Porritt argues it’s time to confront the truth behind the nuclear hype.
Once the climate movement’s most beloved figure, Greta Thunberg now speaks out on Gaza, justice and the climate — and that’s exactly why she still inspires. Jonathon Porritt reflects on the deep, necessary connections between environmentalism and...
Today marks the launch of Love, Anger & Betrayal — a bold and urgent new book co-authored by Sir Jonathon Porritt and 26 Just Stop Oil activists. More than a book, it’s a rallying cry for climate justice, civil disobedience, and the right to protest...
I SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE By all accounts, this headline will not get me arrested — though that is by no means guaranteed. The disgraceful decision by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to proscribe Palestine Action has appalled human rights...
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.
