Why do UK water companies pump sewage into the sea?
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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How Paul Sandby painted Britain as he saw it
The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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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.
The disputed legacy of There’s Something About Miriam: how the “trans trick” lives on
Did the offensive TV dating show with a “twist” sow the seeds for how trans people are depicted today?
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Who owns Britain?
There was a time, in the days of Lloyd George and then Attlee, when land reform was a convulsive policy.…
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