Dipping into the rich jar - How much money could the UK raise from wealth taxes?
We tax work heavily in the UK—but barely tax wealth. Should that change? This paper asks a simple question: how much could a wealth tax actually raise? The answer may surprise you.
Closing the Sovereignty Gap
Zaid calls for reclamation of sovereign power to ensure that "anything that can be done is affordable," provided we have the physical resources and the political courage to mobilise them.
Briefing: Managing the UK Economy in times of the Climate Emergency
This briefing describes how the UK economy functions based on the works of many non-mainstream economists. It dispels the current economic orthodoxy of fiscal rules and taming inflation, shows banking is key for a thriving economy, and gives different options for funding public spending.
Climate Emergency: Economics, Politics, Honesty
This Framing Paper by Jonathan Essex on behalf of Green House Think Tank outlines areas of focus for our forthcoming project. Green House is grappling with what this all means in practice and welcomes contributions and collaboration.
Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. But the possible is not fixed. What we believe is possible depends on our knowledge and beliefs about the world. Ideas can change the world, and Green House is about challenging the ideas that have created the world we live in now, and offering positive alternatives.
The problems we face are systemic, and so the changes we need to make are complex and interconnected. Many of the critical analyses and policy prescriptions that will be part of the new paradigm are already out there. Our aim is to communicate them more clearly, and more widely.
Towards a Theory of Change to guide a New Politics and Economics
This two part gas explores the Need to Reclaim Politics from Growth and Vested Interests, in part through a Shared Vision of Equity, Democracy and Ecological Limits
Wealth taxes don’t go far enough: let’s transform our economy with public money
Wealth taxes are crucial to build an economy that works for people and planet. However, they are just one piece of the puzzle: there is also a need to make use of public money beyond taxes to rise to the urgency and scale of this challenge. Sheridan Kates shares proposals on how to make that happen.
‘Corporate courts’ in trade deals are the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon against climate action: so why does the UK government demand them?
In this gas, Sally Brooks discusses ISDS, secretive 'corporate courts' that threaten to limit significantly national efforts to implement pro-ecological policies.
On Wokery and Net Zero
In a piece expressing his own views rather than those of Green House as an organisation, John Foster suggests the need for a different approach by greens to some traditional British values and attitudes.
Responses from candidates for Leader of the Scottish Green Party
Responses from Scottish Greens Leadership candidates to the Questions Green House Think Tank is asking of potential Green Leaders
Interview with Zack Polanski and Adrian Ramsay, two of the Green Party (E&W) leadership candidates
Green House Think Tank interviews with each of the Green Party leadership candidates in the August 2025 elections as follow up to written responses to our questions for candidates.
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
John Foster reviews an important and disturbing new book by German sociologist Jens Beckert.
The Invisible Doctrine
João Craveiro reviews George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison's book, 'The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)'. A crucial read for anyone interested in political discourse, this book brings to light just how this ideology came to control cultural and economic discourse.
TV Series: I can't get you out of my head
Review of Adam Curtis TV Series 'I can't get you out of my head'. How did our society become this polarised? Why doesn't there appear to be a political route out of our predicament? It pulls out a thread of points which question the value of individualism, role of science and source of meaning.
Ultra Processed People
Peter Sims reviews Chris van Tulleken book 'Ultra Processed People' published 2023. He concludes with nine fundamental lessons, which apply much more widely than the food sector. The books follows the money, cuts through the controversy and there will be something in it that surprises everyone.
Busting the bankers’ club
Andrew Mearman reviews Gerald Epstein’s book, 'Busting the bankers’ club: finance for the rest of us', which explores the power of bankers and financiers over everyday life, as well as those seeking to counteract it, and lays out some principles of finance for the common good.
Ravenous
George Ttoouli reviews Henry Dimbleby's 'Ravenous', finding it to be solidly-informed but insufficiently bold in its vision.
Joanna Macy: a personal tribute from Rupert Read
We are saddened to hear that Joanna Macy has passed away. Macy was an influential thinker behind the core beliefs of Green House Think Tank. Below is a moving tribute written by Green House founder Rupert Read for his former teacher (shared with Rupert's permission).
Green Leadership – Questions for candidates
Questions for the candidates in the 2025 leadership elections for UK-based Green Parties.
Changing the world with four MPs?
A response by John Foster to Rupert Read's piece on the Green Party's post-electoral options. It was presented to a fringe event at the Green Party Conference on 7th September 2024, at which Read also spoke.