Author: Miles Donavan

If we had a pound for every time the phrase “go woke, go broke” appeared in right-wing media… If we had a pound for every time the phrase “go woke, go broke” appeared in right-wing media… The phrase is a favourite among critics of corporate social responsibility, used to suggest a false binary that companies must choose between embracing progressive values or turning a profit. Just last week, the Telegraph ran the headline: “When will the Left learn? If you go woke, you go broke,” in response to the resignation of Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield. His advocacy for progressive causes, the…

“I feel like politics in Hackney has become quite disconnected from residents” Voters in Hackney will be going to the polls next May not only to elect new councillors, but also to elect the borough’s mayor. When the post was last elected – in a by-election in 2023, the Greens picked up 24.5 per cent of the vote and came second. This time around, they’re campaigning to win it. Their candidate is Zoë Garbett, who is currently a councillor in Hackney and a member of the London Assembly. If she does get elected as the next mayor, she would be the…

“There’s a sense that the Greens seem to think that this is their time” The journalist Owen Jones has said that the Green Party can become a mass party of the left under Zack Polanski’s leadership. He made the comments in an interview with Left Foot Forward at this year’s Green Party conference in Bournemouth. Jones was attending the conference to film a video for his YouTube channel and to appear on a live recording of Polanski’s podcast in front of an audience of hundreds of Green Party members. Asked what he made of the conference and the conversations he’d…

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign director praised Zack Polanski’s leadership Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s director Ben Jamal has said that the Green Party is ‘setting an example’ for how political parties should be responding to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Jamal made the comments in an interview with Left Foot Forward at this year’s Green Party conference in Bournemouth. Asked what Jamal thought about the Green Party’s position and campaigning on Palestine, he told Left Foot Forward: “I think they have stood up strong, we are particularly – I have to say – impressed by the leadership…

Britain’s oldest national conservation charity is calling on Emma Reynolds to prioritise legislation for wider and fairer access to nature. Access to the countryside in Britain remains heavily restricted due to outdated land laws, limited infrastructure such as public transport, and insufficient provision for disabled access. As a result, many people face barriers when trying to connect with nature. Campaigners argue the ‘right to roam’ is a right, not a privilege. In England, the public has legal access to just 8 percent of suitable land and only 4 percent of rivers. Walkers are also excluded from around 2,500 landscapes and…

Green MP Sian Berry spoke to Left Foot Forward at her party’s conference Green Party MP Sian Berry has told Left Foot Forward that being involved in successfully campaigning against disability benefit cuts is her proudest achievement since being elected to the House of Commons last July. In an interview with Left Foot Forward at the Green Party’s autumn conference in Bournemouth, Berry was asked what she was most proud of since becoming an MP. She said: “I think the work I did on the benefit cuts, and obviously that was a team effort. There were lots of disabled people’s…

The findings stand in contrast to the apocalyptic tone taken by figures like Trump and Farage, who, following the Brexit vote in 2016, triumphantly predicted the EU’s imminent collapse and labelled it a “dead” project. No sooner had Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a familiar tirade against immigration, warning it is “destroying your heritage” and framing migration and climate policy as a “double-tailed monster” devouring Europe, new data emerged painting a wholly different picture, confirming Europeans themselves seem far from convinced by such a narrative. According to the European Parliament’s Spring 2025 Eurobarometer, nearly three-quarters of…

‘Shaking up the adviser team’ is a well-known political tactic, although how much good it actually does is contested. An excess of advisers is yet another Thatcher legacy we could probably do without but will doubtless have to continue to live with. As the conference stands on Merseyside are packed away for another year, following days dominated by Farage, Reform UK, and rumblings about Andy Burnham’s ambitions, one question looms over Labour: has Keir Starmer’s government bought itself time, and is it now better positioned to fend off a Reform insurgency? Is Labour’s current strategy, confronting Reform’s immigration agenda head-on under…

There are now 83,500 Green Party members. The Green Party of England and Wales has claimed that it now has more members than the Liberal Democrats. The party’s deputy leader Rachel Millward announced that there are now more than 83,500 members of the her party in her first speech to the party’s conference since she was elected to the post earlier this year. The Green Party contrasted this figure with the publicly available membership numbers from the Liberal Democrats, which stood at 83,174 according to reports in August. Millward told the conference: “We are now officially the fastest growing political…

“We’re at an urgent, urgent battle for the truth, for the country” The Green Party’s deputy leader Rachel Millward has said that there is ‘no one else coming’ to stop a Reform government. She made the comments in an interview with Left Foot Forward at the Green Party’s autumn conference in Bournemouth. In the interview, Millward said she was “worried about Reform being the next government”. Asked specifically whether the prospect of this was likely, she told Left Foot Forward: “Four years is a really long time in politics, so I don’t know – I hope not. But right now,…