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The bleak prospect facing the market town of Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, due to rising flood risks, is first and foremost a problem for locals. After seven…

It began with gastropods. Last Tuesday, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a conference of tech executives that she’d intervened to help a developer build about 20,000…

Viewed through the Westminster prism, UK electoral politics seems a five-party contest. The narrative has been well aired in the conference season. The three established parties –…

In a month, this year’s UN climate summit, Cop30, begins in Belém, Brazil – preceded by a key leaders’ meeting. It is a crucial moment. The…

Calls by cancer experts to ban sunbeds in the UK will not be heeded straight away. So far, no minister or opposition party has signalled support…

Let’s scrap Britain’s successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the…

The gradual gentrification of Britain’s creative industries is a matter of record and an all too familiar theme. The alarm has repeatedly been sounded in recent…

Bridget Phillipson, No 10’s preferred candidate for deputy leader, recently called the two-child benefit cap “spiteful”. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, labelled it “abhorrent.…

In The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original…

Sir Keir Starmer’s authority is fading. His poll ratings, and Labour’s, are disastrous. Key lieutenants are departing. With Labour conference looming, the talk is less about…