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...

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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.

"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 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 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...

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 ...

Westminster politics is deliberately set up to keep power in the hands of major parties, Caroline Lucas, the only Green MP in Parliament, is expected ...