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Natalie Bennett

@natalieben

Natalie Bennett is a member of the House of Lords and former leader of the Green Party

<p>Alok Sharma deserves credit for his work as chair, while Boris Johnson delivered damaging messages</p>
Opinion

The UK fell short at Cop26 – but we can still rescue its legacy

<p>Israel's President Reuven Rivlin between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid as they pose for a group photo with ministers of the new Israeli government</p>
Middle East

Israel’s Bennett says will rule for all, as Hamas urges ‘day of rage’

<p>Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is currently serving a prison sentence</p>
Voices

We have to put pressure on those who seek to repress freedom of speech

<p>Marooned: our movement will be significantly more restricted with the end of the Brexit transition period</p>
Voices

The British must learn to celebrate migration – it is a two-way street

<p>On World Soil Day let’s celebrate the remarkable dirt beneath our feet</p>
Voices

Let’s stop treating soil like dirt – all life relies on it

Health Secretary Matt Hancock (centre) and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty (right) on their way to the government's emergency committee Cobra to discuss coronavirus on March 2, 2020.
Voices

The government must not keep MPs in the dark about coronavirus

Related video: Former child refugee Lord Dubs says he cannot understand the government shutting down child refugee program
Voices

Anyone can become a climate refugee. Migration is a human right

Our political philosophy is built on the understanding that you can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet
Voices

‘Labour’s position on the Heathrow vote shows it isn’t green’

The EU and human rights come together in the Fundamental Charter of Human Rights
Voices

A vote to remain will protect us from our own Tory government

Natalie Bennett campaigns with Darren Hall, Green candidate for the party's target seat Bristol West
Comment

Election 2015: The Green Party can create a humane society that

Comment

The 4 questions Cameron and Miliband must answer at the TV debates

Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party
Comment

#GreenSurge: Did you know that the Green Party is growing rapidly? Let

The amount of nitrogen stored in the soil as a result of soaring emissions from agriculture, power stations and cars is now so great it has reached critical levels
Comment

The healing of the ozone layer is vindication for all climate change

Comment

The healing of the ozone layer is vindication for all climate change

The amount of nitrogen stored in the soil as a result of soaring emissions from agriculture, power stations and cars is now so great it has reached critical levels
Liberia immigration officers wearing protective gloves inspect the travel documents at a border post with Sierra Leone, 30 July (EPA)
Comment

The Ebola outbreak teaches us an important lesson about aid

Green Party chief Natalie Bennett had hoped to win six seats
Comment

Enough stealth success for the Greens, let’s get visible

The evidence for climate change can be found in natural systems, such as polar ice and coral reefs
Comment

The IPCC report and the state of climate change politics in the UK

Protests against NHS cuts ahead of the Budget on March 19, 2014 in London, England
Comment

This is what a truly progressive budget would have looked like

Protests against NHS cuts ahead of the Budget on March 19, 2014 in London, England
Comment

This is what a truly progressive budget would have looked like

The vilage green is under flood water after the river Thames burst it's banks on February 10, 2014 in Datchet, England.
Comment

What Cameron must do to sort out the flooding mess and move forward

Comment

It's not the 'skipping' three who should be questioned, it's the

ireman Alex Badcock is overcome with emotion as he walks out of Clerkenwell fire station after completing the last ever shift there on January 9, 2014 in London, England. At 100 years old Clerkenwell is the oldest fire station in the country. It is closin
Comment

Fire stations close across London: Destroying public resources crushes

Comment

Make a New Year's resolution to vote for the party you most believe in

Comment

This Government has thrown the poor and vulnerable on the scrapheap

Death on two wheels: a 'ghost bike' memorial to Deep Lee, a cyclist killed at King’s Cross in London
Comment

The Big Questions: How do we make cycling safer? What are the lessons

The Home Office is piloting an advert scheme urging illegal immigrants to 'go home'
Comment

Why we need a movement to counter xenophobia

Comment

Failure of private prisons must force a rethink

Death on two wheels: a 'ghost bike' memorial to Deep Lee, a cyclist killed at King’s Cross in London
Comment

The Big Questions: How do we make cycling safer? What are the lessons

The Home Office is piloting an advert scheme urging illegal immigrants to 'go home'
Comment

Why we need a movement to counter xenophobia

Comment

Failure of private prisons must force a rethink

Women breastfeed their babies at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington on February 12, 2011 during a 'nurse-in'organized after a woman was stopped from nursing in public at the museum
Comment

Let mothers breastfeed - wherever they choose

Comment

Let mothers breastfeed - wherever they choose

Women breastfeed their babies at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington on February 12, 2011 during a 'nurse-in'organized after a woman was stopped from nursing in public at the museum
Wandsworth prison
Comment

Prison privatisation won't work: effective, rehabilitating prisons are

Commentators

Natalie Bennett: This free-for-all won't solve the housing crisis

Africa

Bomb blasts at Egyptian resorts kill at least 88

UK Politics

Women's Library makes an exhibition of Thatcher

UK Politics

Women's Library makes an exhibition of Thatcher

Africa

Sudan's ancient treasures reveal the mighty culture that humbled the

This Britain

British Museum shines new light on the Rosetta Stone of pharaohs and

Science

No stone unturned

Travel

a short stay in... Bangkok

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