Defence spending: the UK has a terrible record of waste and failure. And one of the expenses we are continuing to pay for is extensive and expensive lobbying by a handful of giant companies. While the nature of defence needs is changing at speed

Current Chancellor, Rachel Reeve's speech prioritises helping the financial sector extract more wealth from our society. We need a chancellor who works for the country, not the city of London.

The City of London Cororation wrote to me to defend its championing of the interests of the #FinancialSector. But that's what I am concerned about from the last "rotten borough" in the UK, opening doors further to hedge funds & multinational corporations. #democracy - it would be a good idea

Bring UK Parliament to life for your students and help them develop their understanding of the vital role of the House of Lords. It's the perfect time to apply for next year's online and in-person sessions. @houseoflords.parliament.uk learning.parliament.uk/en/learn-with-the-lords/

Risks and pollution from activities in space are very much down to Earth. We don't want to be part of a race to the bottom on environmental standards, as a #HouseofLords report suggests is possible

Huge, important win for @truthaboutzane.bsky.social campaign #TruthAboutZane #Pollution #PublicHealth #CampaigningWorks

Vote for Martin Schmierer to be your new Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner on Thursday 16th July. For a PCC who is visible, accountable and focused on making our communities safer vote for the Green Party's Martin Schmierer.

Vote for Phoebe Connell 16 July, Your Green Party candidate for the Old Catton by-election. If you want a local, hardworking councillor who will listen to and stand up for residents, advocate for much needed change and represent local people on Norfolk County Council then vote for Phoebe Connell 💚

My latest Substack is out now. Something different this week, linking my #NaturesRights Bill with a #resilience debate. Plus a takedown of the foundations of claims for carbon capture and storage nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

We have to #Unlearn the idea that history proceeds, teleoligically, in one direction. And the assumption that the way things are today in the 21st century is fixed. History is made by human and more-than-human action

In a #HouseofLords debate highly enthusiastic about space-based technology, I offered a note of caution. It's already crowded up there, and that carries significant risks #Resilience #KesslerEvent

#FoodSecurity: surely the government can't be blind to the multiple warnings - including from the security services - about the threats to #FoodSecurity. They can only be trying to hide it from the public. But that's entirely the wrong approach, only going to spread fear and anger

We need a fair voting system, so that seats in the commons match number of votes - proportional representation now! #prnow #avisnotpr

For me, the issue of historical forced adoptions has a personal angle. That's partly why I worked with campaigners for an adoption apology back in 2012, and while it took far, far too long, it is great that it has finally been secured in England. (Wales and Scotland were ahead.)

With the National Crime Agency reporting a 'truly international' network of men using drugs to rape and assault women, and a resulting surge in awareness of the risk, I pushed the government on the level of resources available to help victims #VAWG

There's a chance today to use a colonial legacy to get rid of another, toxic, colonial legacy, anti-homosexual laws in Trinidad and Tobago, and possibly in other Commonwealth countries. Good luck Jason Jones and team! You can read more about the case here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Delighted to be chairing the public health panel at Breathing Life — UK100's marking of a decade of local clean air ambition. Why are we doing this? A huge - and continuing - #PublicHealth issue, both indoors and out www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breathing-...

Trump (and Rubio and Vance) have made it plain they want to shape UK (and other European) politics in their own image to their own ends. We must not forget they are anti- #democracy

#ArmedForcesBill - we owe it to the armed forces, and the country, to be brutally honest about our capacities and place in the world in this #AgeofShocks

#GetGreensElected - Greater Manchester is the place to be to get out the message up to July 31 @greenparty.org.uk

#NaturesRights are an essential foundation for a healthy, secure future - from the debate on my bill today hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

**WATCH LIVE** Natalie Bennett's speech at the second reading of the UK Nature's Rights Bill. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

We need to fundamentally change our relationship with nature. The UK Nature's Rights Bill seeks to do just that. You can help: ✉ Email your MP asking them to support the bill. Details can be found in my bio and on my website nataliebennett.org/2026/06/29/t...

Not a big ask - let's get rid of plastic-wrapped fruit & veg by 2030: supermarkets profit and the rest of us pay to clean up the #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution (and #FoodWaste)

#DefenceInvestmentPlan - far too little debate about HOW money being spent. Most notably on unusable nuclear weapons And how reliant our security effort is tightly interlinked with unstable US and its uncertain allegiances

My second question on the #FarmingRoadmap. Why does #agroecology play second fiddle to techno-solutionism? See for yourself here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

#AnimalWelfare - this is the Tube advert to which minister refers. As she says, getting #BigAg to _voluntarily_ end this hideousness have failed @endfactoryfarming.bsky.social

#FactoryFarm chickens - government minister says it has no say in where the farms go as it plans to work to EXPAND the industry. Err... what about controlling the air and river pollution, the #PublicHealth and environmental impacts? Isn't that the government's job?

#EnvironmentalCrime - linked to terrorism, linked to corruption, and given the amount of #DirtyMoney flooding through London, needs to be a focus for regulators hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

"Infection control is not separate from cancer care, it is cancer care"