Did UK water companies really start pumping sewage into the sea after the Environment Bill vote?
Brexit and ageing infrastructure are two reasons the UK has sewage floating around its shores.
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Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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The EU climate chief Frans Timmermans: “The planet is probably going to be OK. But we won’t”
The EU Commission vice president on why the UK’s climate ambition needs to be matched by “very concrete policies”.
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The Conservatives’ net-zero strategy would doom the planet to climate chaos
Only public ownership and dramatic state investment can decarbonise the economy at the speed required.
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Why Thérèse Coffey is wrong about Universal Credit claimants and work
High benefit withdrawal rates mean that claimants cannot simply compensate for cuts by finding two more hours of work a…
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Decoding Global Britain’s post-Brexit foreign policy
Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin host the weekly global affairs podcast World Review from the New Statesman.