Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
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Change Everything
A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future, by a veteran former Green Party leader
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Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
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With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
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It is not enough for the government to simply condemn the establishment of more illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank; the UK must take concrete action.
Ban all trade with illegal settlements and refuse to have anything to do with the proceeds of crime.
Ban all trade with illegal settlements and refuse to have anything to do with the proceeds of crime.
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
It is not enough for the government to simply condemn the establishment of more illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank; the UK must take concrete action.
Ban all trade with illegal settlements and refuse to have anything to do with the proceeds of crime.
Ban all trade with illegal settlements and refuse to have anything to do with the proceeds of crime.
Today in the #HouseofLords about 4.30 I'll be speaking about the nitrogen crisis, on which I wrote for @theecologist.org back in 2021.
The "bomb" is now even larger than it was then
#PlanetaryBoundaries #Nitrogen #Pollution
theecologist.org/2021/jul/22/...
The "bomb" is now even larger than it was then
#PlanetaryBoundaries #Nitrogen #Pollution
theecologist.org/2021/jul/22/...
The global nitrogen time bomb
The world’s mismanagement of the nitrogen cycle is 'our forgotten environmental crisis'.
theecologist.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Today in the #HouseofLords about 4.30 I'll be speaking about the nitrogen crisis, on which I wrote for @theecologist.org back in 2021.
The "bomb" is now even larger than it was then
#PlanetaryBoundaries #Nitrogen #Pollution
theecologist.org/2021/jul/22/...
The "bomb" is now even larger than it was then
#PlanetaryBoundaries #Nitrogen #Pollution
theecologist.org/2021/jul/22/...
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No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Wes Streeting is asked if Trump has broken international law when it comes to Venezuela. Streeting says he's got nothing to add and he's not here to be a commentator.
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
January 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM
No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Reposted by Natalie Bennett
It shouldn't have taken the govt over a year to listen to farmers' concerns. But there are still problems - and loopholes - with the APR policy. Govt should listen to and work with farmers to ensure a sustainable future for farming.
January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It shouldn't have taken the govt over a year to listen to farmers' concerns. But there are still problems - and loopholes - with the APR policy. Govt should listen to and work with farmers to ensure a sustainable future for farming.
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On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
After U.S. Strikes on Christmas, Fear Grips Muslims in Rural Nigeria
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Reminder how little we still understand about human bodies, particularly when it comes to #WomensHealth
#PublicHealth #Microbiome
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/h...
#PublicHealth #Microbiome
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/h...
This Common Infection Was Thought to Affect Only Women. Now Doctors Know Better.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Reminder how little we still understand about human bodies, particularly when it comes to #WomensHealth
#PublicHealth #Microbiome
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/h...
#PublicHealth #Microbiome
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/h...
Yes.
"Evasiveness is not neutral. It is a posture of vassalage."
#Venezuela #RuleofLaw
www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
"Evasiveness is not neutral. It is a posture of vassalage."
#Venezuela #RuleofLaw
www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
America kidnapped a president. Keir Starmer said nothing
The abduction of Nicolás Maduro marks a new phase of American imperialism – in which Britain is a vassal state
www.newstatesman.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Yes.
"Evasiveness is not neutral. It is a posture of vassalage."
#Venezuela #RuleofLaw
www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
"Evasiveness is not neutral. It is a posture of vassalage."
#Venezuela #RuleofLaw
www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
Message for Sir Keir and team: don't blame the civil service for your lack of direction
January 5, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Message for Sir Keir and team: don't blame the civil service for your lack of direction
Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The weightlifting champion jailed by Russia for ‘plotting sabotage and assassinations’
Yulia Lemeshchenko was defiant and did not deny the accusations, saying she had decided to fight against Russian military aggression
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
My Substack out now: Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: “The Pacific will be ours, and Atlantic is mainly ours,” crowed Walt Whitman.
This year is 170th anniversary of Guano Islands Act. Not THE start of US imperialism, but a geographic stepping up of it
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
This year is 170th anniversary of Guano Islands Act. Not THE start of US imperialism, but a geographic stepping up of it
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 AM
My Substack out now: Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: “The Pacific will be ours, and Atlantic is mainly ours,” crowed Walt Whitman.
This year is 170th anniversary of Guano Islands Act. Not THE start of US imperialism, but a geographic stepping up of it
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
This year is 170th anniversary of Guano Islands Act. Not THE start of US imperialism, but a geographic stepping up of it
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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I had a chat with Zack Polanski about his fairly busy first four months as Green leader, how the party can combat Reform, and why he spends an hour every day replying personally to direct messages on social media.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game
This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections - by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbook
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Do Mark Carney, José Raúl Mulino (Panama), Jens-Frederik Nielsen (Greenland) have to look to their security? Seems so
This leaves me wondering how many other countries are on Trump's "to invade" list for 2026, and whether the UK government will oppose any of them.
"We shed no tears" over the end of Nicolas Maduro's regime, the PM said.
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Do Mark Carney, José Raúl Mulino (Panama), Jens-Frederik Nielsen (Greenland) have to look to their security? Seems so
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Spot on from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 👇
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Spot on from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 👇
Beyond Venezuela, there are big questions to ask about US backing global future of regional spheres of influence
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/econ...
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/econ...
The economics of the new Monroe Doctrine
President Trump’s actions seem to indicate a hemispheric US foreign policy emerging. There is a bleak logic behind that approach.
www.chathamhouse.org
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Beyond Venezuela, there are big questions to ask about US backing global future of regional spheres of influence
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/econ...
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/econ...
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The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Thinking of the brave people of Iran, particular the women.
There were feminists and democrats who helped overthrow the Shah, and their commitment and principles live on. Best wishes to them
www.independent.co.uk/voices/prote...
There were feminists and democrats who helped overthrow the Shah, and their commitment and principles live on. Best wishes to them
www.independent.co.uk/voices/prote...
Is this the endgame for Iran’s ayatollahs?
Deadly protests in Iran over the past week have been, in places, openly political and nostalgic for the Shah. We have been here before, but regimes fall gradually, then suddenly, writes Mary Dejevsky
www.independent.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Thinking of the brave people of Iran, particular the women.
There were feminists and democrats who helped overthrow the Shah, and their commitment and principles live on. Best wishes to them
www.independent.co.uk/voices/prote...
There were feminists and democrats who helped overthrow the Shah, and their commitment and principles live on. Best wishes to them
www.independent.co.uk/voices/prote...
Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month.
Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law
nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...
Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law
nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...
Venezuela
Venezuela has about one-fifth of the world’s global oil reserves—an estimated 303 billion barrels—and the single largest-known mass of crude oil
nataliebennett.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month.
Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law
nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...
Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law
nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...
Shocking but unsurprising: "Amount poorest households have left over after bills & essential spending has fallen by 2.1% since Labour came to power. The most affluent households have seen their discretionary incomes rise by 10.3%"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Poorest have got poorer under Labour while richest are better off
Prime minister Keir Starmer pledges to ‘wage all out war’ on the high cost of living
www.independent.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Shocking but unsurprising: "Amount poorest households have left over after bills & essential spending has fallen by 2.1% since Labour came to power. The most affluent households have seen their discretionary incomes rise by 10.3%"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reading around the biological weapons convention - a useful overview
#Biosecurity #Biodefence
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/10/2...
#Biosecurity #Biodefence
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/10/2...
Science Diplomacy to Reinforce the Biological Weapons Convention: A Strategic Agenda for Global Biosecurity
Jasmina Saric, Cedric Invernizzi, Filippa Lentzos, Mary Onsarigo and Luk Van Langenhove call for a coordinated science diplomacy strategy to bridge science and security, strengthen the BWC and advance...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Reading around the biological weapons convention - a useful overview
#Biosecurity #Biodefence
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/10/2...
#Biosecurity #Biodefence
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/10/2...
Useful outline of the role of #BigMoney in US politics; broadly similar in the UK
#democracy - it would be a good idea
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Useful outline of the role of #BigMoney in US politics; broadly similar in the UK
#democracy - it would be a good idea
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
Economic and environmental justice are indivisible.
We need a society that meets people’s basic needs while protecting climate and nature — these goals belong together.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ClimateJustice
We need a society that meets people’s basic needs while protecting climate and nature — these goals belong together.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ClimateJustice
January 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Economic and environmental justice are indivisible.
We need a society that meets people’s basic needs while protecting climate and nature — these goals belong together.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ClimateJustice
We need a society that meets people’s basic needs while protecting climate and nature — these goals belong together.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ClimateJustice
The very human (and exploited) basis of so-called self-driving cars.
Without getting into the moment-by-moment human input...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Without getting into the moment-by-moment human input...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Opinion | Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The very human (and exploited) basis of so-called self-driving cars.
Without getting into the moment-by-moment human input...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Without getting into the moment-by-moment human input...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...