Caroline Lucas

The Week That Was: A Time and Place

Carla Buzasi | Posted 15.06.2013 | UK
Carla Buzasi

We are all living through history; that much is certain. There are, however, specific times or incidents when it is possible to imagine the school lessons in decades to come, when pupils will be studying with rabid intensity the very events unfolding around us right now. The saga of Prism, or the saga of Edward Snowden as Hollywood will surely repackage it, has to be one such event. With a script to rival a new Bourne movie, the 'spy story of the age' as the Guardian prefix it, has all the hallmarks of a milestone in global history.

Ned Simons

MP Demands The Sun Be Banned From Parliament

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 12.06.2013 | UK Politics

Green MP Caroline Lucas has written to the House of Commons authorities asking for The Sun newspaper to be banned from the palace of Westminster. I...

Iceland, iTunes and UK Parliament: Breaking the Taboo with Sam Branson

Jason Reed | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK Politics
Jason Reed

Drugs can often prove to be an arduous, convoluted conversation. To try and unpick the tangled knot that is global drug policy is fairly impossible. T...

Exploitative Workfare Scheme Was a Disaster - Now the Government Must Pay the Price of Failure

Caroline Lucas | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Politics
Caroline Lucas

By failing to vote against this Bill, Labour is effectively supporting the Government and indicating that it, like David Cameron's administration, sees no problem in bringing in emergency legislation to overturn a court's findings when it goes against them.

Iraq War Debate 'Blocked' By Government, Angry MPs Claim

Posted 18.03.2013 | UK Politics

The government has infuriated MPs by appearing to block a Commons debate on the anniversary of the Iraq War. The group has written a strongly-worde...

The Party Where Being a Woman Is Political - By Choice

Zion Lights | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Politics
Zion Lights

The attraction of this political party for women is simple. Green Party benefits include practical things as a national rape crisis hotline, options for job-share, equal pay, maternity care, childcare and maternity/paternity leave, supporting breastfeeding, support for domestic abuse and violence.

Fifty-Three Per Cent of Brits Support Cannabis Reform: It's Time for An Impact Assessment

Jason Reed | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Politics
Jason Reed

The time has come to dispense with our dusty 'legalise or not legalise' discussion as this provokes a non-debate and an almost literal fist-fight of a discussion due to its lack of finesse.

Make No Mistake, the Government Wants to Subsidise Nuclear - And It Will Cost Us Dear

Caroline Lucas | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK Politics
Caroline Lucas

With the huge benefits of investing in renewables, energy efficiency and demand reduction becoming ever more obvious, it's clear that there needs to be far greater scrutiny of the policy decisions that are propelling Britain towards a nuclear future.

After Gay Marriage, the Next Step Should Be Heterosexual Partnerships

Natalie Bennett | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK Politics
Natalie Bennett

MPs have acknowledged that civil partnerships don't meet all couples' needs - now they need to go a step further, and acknowledge that marriage doesn't meet the needs of all heterosexual couples.

An Historic Day - What Will MPs Do With the Welfare Bill?

Natalie Bennett | Posted 10.03.2013 | UK Politics
Natalie Bennett

Now would be a really good time to take a step back and ask why the welfare bill has kept rising. That's been because more people are making benefit claims due to the recession and as a result of rising rents and living costs, not because of overly generous uprating.

Does One Approve Of Foie Gras?

PA | Posted 29.11.2012 | UK

The Queen and the Prince of Wales have been urged to strip Fortnum & Mason of its Royal Warrants because it sells foie gras. Green MP Caroline Luca...

Green Party Expels Brighton Councillor Who Opposed Gay Marriage

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK

A Brighton councillor has been expelled from the Green Party for her opposition of same-sex marriage, based on her Christian convictions. Christina...

The Radical Alternative

Natalie Bennett | Posted 03.11.2012 | UK Politics
Natalie Bennett

As I write it is about eight hours since I was elected as the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. It has been, happily, a whirl. An ITN interview, two BBC television slots, the BBC World at One, Sky TV, Australian radio, chats with a string of national newspaper journalists ... And there is bound to have been something I missed out on that list.

Natalie Bennett Elected As Green Party Leader

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.09.2012 | UK Politics

Natalie Bennett was elected the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales in a ballot of party members on Monday. The 46-year-old chair of...

Minister: Undercover Police Can Have Sex With Suspects If Abstaining Would Blow Their Cover

www.telegraph.co.uk | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK

Undercover police officers can start sexual relationships with suspected criminals if it means they are more plausible, Home Office Minister Nick Herb...

MP Exposes Allegation Ex-Undercover Cop Firebombed London Store

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK

Green MP Caroline Lucas has exposed allegations a former undercover police officer planted a firebomb in a branch of Debenhams to "bolster" his credib...

Greens Advance in Local Elections

Adrian Ramsay | Posted 15.07.2012 | UK Politics
Adrian Ramsay

This year voter turnout was disappointingly low. Some blamed it on the rain but we need to look deeper for explanations about why so many people have lost faith in politics.

Caroline Lucas To Quit As Green Leader

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.05.2012 | UK Politics

Caroline Lucas is standing down as leader of the Green Party. Lucas - who was elected as the party's first MP in 2010 - said she would step down in...

Green Councillor Under Fire For 'Raping And Looting' Remark

The Huffington Post UK | Asa Bennett | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK Politics

A senior Green Party councillor is facing calls to resign after making a "highly offensive" remark about "raping and looting" as he argued for legalis...

Why I Buy the Brand 'George Galloway'

Hugh Salmon | Posted 04.06.2012 | UK Politics
Hugh Salmon

Although I do not agree with a lot of what George Galloway says and certainly never want to meet the man, I do think the brand that is George Galloway is a force for good in this country.

By George, British Politics is Opening Up

Adnan Al-Daini | Posted 02.06.2012 | UK Politics
Adnan Al-Daini

"They can't lie straight in bed, they say one thing and mean another and they just answer a question with a question". So said a voter in Bradford We...

The Political Spectrum – What Does it Mean to Greens?

Matt Follett | Posted 02.05.2012 | UK Politics
Matt Follett

The most important issue in the new political and economic climate facing greens, social liberals, and social democrats, is how to face the future without wanting to shelter in the past.

MPs Denied Debate On NHS BIll E-Petition

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 28.02.2012 | UK Politics

MPs will not be granted a special debate on the government's controversial health reforms on the floor of the Commons, despite an e-petition calling f...

Dina Rickman

Protest - The New Age Of Politics, But How Can They Gain Power?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dina Rickman | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK Politics

As The Occupy St. Pauls Protesters expect to be evicted after losing their High Court battle, we look at the protest movement which gathered momentum ...

Who Changed the World in 2011? That's Easy

Mark Donne | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK
Mark Donne

Channel 4 News and its savant, cherished anchor Jon Snow threw out a seasonal challenge yesterday: who changed the world in 2011?