New gas power plants won’t bring us energy security Continued reliance on imported fossil fuels weakens our national resilience and makes us even more vulnerable to price shocks. а> By Jonny Ball
Public Health Labour will need “to a find different way” to pay for £111m NHS dentistry reform Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Biodiversity and Nature The law that could “create areas of habitat the size of Bromley” Megan Kenyon
Climate Two thirds plan to make more sustainable lifestyle choices over the next five years Polly Bindman
Devolution The Research Brief: attempts to tackle north-south inequality have failed Your weekly dose of policy thinking. By Spotlight
Economic Policy The Policy Ask with Karl Williams: “A Norman Tebbit portrait hangs above my Tufton Street desk” The research director at the Centre for Policy Studies on five-mile runs, the EU, and the miners’ strike. By Spotlight
Online Safety The Parliament Brief: will the new schools “phone ban” keep children safe? Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told MPs that most headteachers already restrict the use of devices. By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Online Safety Social media companies can no longer leave children to their own devices Bernadka Dubicka