Natalie Bennett is a Green member of the House of Lords in the UK. She was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Previously she spent 20 years working as a journalist, including on the Bangkok Post, The Times, and as editor of the Guardian Weekly.
Articles
24.02.2022
Editorial: The Invasion of Ukraine is a Wake-up Call
Solidarity with the Ukrainian people in the face of foreign invasion must guide the response.
Read more29.11.2021
To Repair its Geopolitics, the West Needs a New Model of Statehood
Natalie Bennett looks at the dark history of the Cold War to argue that it is time for a real rules-based democratic order.
Read more01.06.2021
UK Local Elections: Green Gains Explained
Greens in the UK have made significant breakthroughs at the local level. Where has this success come from and where might it lead?
Read more26.05.2021
A State of Disrepair: Democracy in the United Kingdom
The government has exploited cultural issues to the detriment of democratic rights and norms, putting already vulnerable groups further at risk.
Read more17.12.2020
The World Cannot Afford to Look Away From Xinjiang
Abusive regimes are responsible for their own behaviour. But other states are also responsible if they stand by and fail to speak out.
Read more28.05.2019
Basic Income Has Always Been a Women’s Cause
In the UK, women spearheaded early campaigns for a basic income. Natalie Bennett explains why the feminist case for a UBI remains strong today.
Read more17.10.2018
Green Observatory: Basic Income
The Green European Journal asked experts, activists, and politicians from around Europe about the politics of basic income where they are.
Read more17.10.2018
Basic But Transformative
Basic income offers progressives a positive vision for the future shaped around security, autonomy and social justice.
Read more15.08.2018
The UK Plastic Crisis Unwrapped
Public momentum to tackle plastic waste is strong in the UK, but political barriers stall further progress.
Read more30.07.2018
Green Observatory: Drug Policy
From the War on Drugs to health, are changes in attitudes to drugs being reflected in policies around Europe?
Read more14.02.2018
Green Observatory: Fake News
A round-up of the fake news debate across European countries.
Read more08.02.2016
“We Cannot Support Violence of Any Kind” – The Challenge of Doing Politics in the Midst of Conflict
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a coalition of Left-wing, Kurdish and progressive parties, was founded in in 2012 in order to help smaller parties amplify their voices and gain access to the Turkish Parliament, where the electoral system stacks the odds strongly against them. In both the 2014 and subsequently recalled 2015 parliamentary elections, the party succeeded in winning over 10% of the vote, the necessary threshold for entering Parliament.
Read more01.10.2013
Towards a Green renaissance of European industry
A debate between Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and Reinhard Bütikofer, MEP and co-chair of the European Green Party.
Read more01.05.2012
Britain’s Gendered Austerity
Austerity in Britain has a face. That face is female. That face is a mother of a dependent child. A mother with a job – although a job she may well lose in the next couple of years through no fault of her own. A very poor paying, part-time job, renting at high cost in the private sector, in a home that’s poorly insulated and expensive to heat.
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