Green Party

Here come the Greens

19 August 2023 9:00 am

So far, Keir Starmer has been unmoved by complaints from left-wingers that his policies differ little from those of Boris…

The changing shade of the Greens

3 September 2022 9:00 am

How pleasant it is to watch an idea fall apart. Especially when it is an idea held by people you…

The SNP-Green alliance is a victory for the cranks

13 August 2021 4:13 pm

The SNP’s nationalist outriders, the Scottish Green party, are reported to be within touching distance of agreeing the terms of…

The growing extremism of France’s Green party

29 June 2021 5:16 pm

On Sunday evening I met three left-leaning French friends for a picnic in a Parisian park. We’d hardly begun the…

Why are the Greens so opposed to the hydrogen economy?

20 May 2021 6:50 pm

As the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow approaches, it is only to be expected that charities, lobbyists, special interest groups…

Has Starmer already missed his chance?

5 April 2021 10:00 pm

Hindsight is the easiest weapon to employ in politics — as Keir Starmer of all people should know. When you…

The Green party is missing a trick

2 March 2021 10:53 pm

The British left is moribund. The Labour party’s ratings are sliding under Sir Keir Starmer, aka ‘Captain Hindsight’, as he…

Green scare: Labour should stop chasing the eco vote

11 February 2021 5:30 pm

Should the Labour party be worried about the Greens? Some Labour activists think so. The Greens have just become the…

Sunday shows round-up: Jeremy Corbyn- There will be a great deal of movement

18 November 2019 3:43 am

Jeremy Corbyn – ‘I want a close relationship’ with the EU The Labour leader was Andrew Marr’s chief guest of…

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Inside the eco-socialist paradise of the Green party primary

18 September 2019 2:52 am

The Green party’s 2016 presidential ticket, headed by Jill Stein, captured just about 1 percent of the national popular vote,…

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Get ready: these climate change talks might actually do something

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Prince of Wales is right, and I appreciate that this isn’t something people say very often. Now and again,…

Miliband country

2 May 2015 9:00 am

A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life

Real life

2 May 2015 9:00 am

‘I suppose,’ said my dad philosophically, ‘I could always vote Green.’ ‘Oh, for goodness sake! Not you as well!’ I…

Greeks vs Greens

14 March 2015 9:00 am

The Green party’s manifesto appears to make saving the planet only a small element in its otherwise painfully unoriginal agenda.…

Is that Green or red?

14 March 2015 9:00 am

Few people know this, but hidden within the FedEx logo, between the E and the x, there is a small…

Green for danger

31 January 2015 9:00 am

The Green party has been likened to a watermelon: green on the outside and red on the inside. But that…

Beware the eco-comrades

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Brighton council’s disastrous experiments should serve as a warning to the whole country against voting Green