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Governments and businesses keep talking the talk on preventing a catastrophic climate breakdown, while consistently refusing to walk the walk
The Prime Minister is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system
You don’t have to look very hard to see that Starmer’s Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you
Celebration is mixed with mourning and despair in Beirut as the scale of destruction is revealed
“In many ways, this COP was a deep disappointment”, those feeling the full force of catastrophic climate change tell the Byline Podcast
A volunteer unit made of mainly women talk about how joining Ukraine’s Butcha Witches ‘is like taking revenge on life’
There is only one red line in this war and it’s one that Russia crosses daily
The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world
Police accused of ‘discriminatory’ and ‘heavy-handed’ approach towards children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
The last Government passed shabbily-drafted pieces of legislation which were only saved by amendments from Labour and the House of Lords, according to two senior Conservative figures
A damning new report accuses the City regulator of getting too close to the very sector it was set up to protect consumers from
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts
Experts say a complex but systematic series of electoral violations rather than a ‘single smoking gun’ have undermined Georgia’s parliamentary elections
Union leader accuses the Labour Government of “trying to face both ways” amid threatened strikes over orders for civil servants to return to the office
The financial data company is accused of listing dozens of bonds as raising funds for a ‘sustainable purpose’ when they could be used to fund fossil fuel companies and deforestation
The last Government’s battle with unions has ended with PCS now able to claw back tens of millions of pounds from Government
How did media outlets allow the narrative about this story to become so quickly dominated by one side?
As Donald Trump prepares to usher in an oligarchic dark age, Democrats must reflect on how their own flirtation with plutocracy shattered their party’s chances
Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers’ cash could be recovered
The admission came in a legal statement by Keir Starmer’s Government to the High Court, amid a challenge to the UK’s arms and F-35 exports to Israel
World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike Buckley from the COP29 summit
The spectre of Boris Johnson’s assault on standards in public life is slowly retreating, argues Josiah Mortimer
As tensions mount over long range missile attacks on Russia, Chris York explains the daily routine for Ukrainians living in the capital Kyiv
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed
“We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities”, says Laura Tobin
The Prince is suing the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World alleging it unlawfully obtained private information about him from 1996 until 2011
Conservative ministers purchased the contaminated land and asbestos-ridden buildings, despite warnings from officials
Paul Niland explains why Trump’s talk of a ‘deal’ for peace will never work
‘I don’t fully understand why so many people would faint from horror at the thought of hearing a dog screaming in agony but have no real issue with the idea of a human doing that’
The President elect’s appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
YouTuber Niko Omilana’s prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election
Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms
Remember this the next time you see a Mail headline lambasting human rights lawyers and the ECHR
Wondering what you’ve missed amid the noise surrounding Trump’s victory? Here are some stories you won’t have heard much about this past week
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
After 80 years, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s idea is more relevant than ever
A long awaited plan for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers is due to be published this winter.
Six women were charged in the UK for ending their own pregnancy after the US overturned abortion rights in 2022. Investigations have also exposed how US lobby groups are funding UK anti-abortion organisations