On 9 August, I was one of 522 citizens arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign in Parliament Square calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the lifting of the ban on Palestine Action. This ban, imposed by Home Secretary Yvette...
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.
The dust has just about settled since Labour’s ‘golden nuclear moment’ laid out by Rachel Reeves in her recent Spending Review. Plans for the monstrous Sizewell C took another step forward, nudged along by the offer of another £14.2 billion of...
Ed Miliband, Secretary of State at DESNZ, is still dead set on spending billions of pounds on Carbon Capture and Storage – on top of all the billions of pounds that he's now decided to hurl into the UK's nuclear black hole! This will not help...
Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a calculated assault on environmental protections, masquerading as reform. Starmer and Reeves have chosen to side with volume housebuilders and concrete over communities and conservation – knowing full...
Our deeply compromised and unprincipled Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has FINALLY – woken up to the true depravity of Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing Ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir – without whose support Netanyahu’s...
Food, Farming and Fertility: Chemical Connections Ultra-processed foods now make up over 50% of the average UK diet — and they're being linked to rising chronic disease, falling fertility rates, and tens of thousands of premature deaths each year...
