Sick of sewage and pollution scandals? A Clean Water Bill is coming to Parliament. Let's ensure it's as ambitious as our lakes and rivers need it to be.

Former Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll tells the Byline Times Podcast that Britain needs to stop appeasing ‘the angry gods’ of global financial markets

It’s Existential Crises Week!

We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...

One Health researchers are inclined towards cooperation and consensus, but they need to challenge the broligarchs’ destructive ideology and solutionism

We urge the government to review the regulations for new sewage treatment infrastructure and introduce new legislation to ensure high international standards are met; to safeguard people’s health, bet...

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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Many commentators here have asked for a different way to present ideas. What about this? And yes, AI was involved in this process. But the ideas are mine.

The review of how rates are calculated in England and Wales could lead to reform of the system.

Research shows firms are branded as beauty and convenience but apparently operate in money-laundering and terrorist financing sectors

This quote comes from Prof Jamie Galbraith's March 2010 article 'In defence of deficits'. The original is here.  I learned of it via William Thomson's Substack. To put things crudely, there are two wa...

Polls suggest growing scepticism around net zero, with politicians uncertain how to proceed

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...

Forest Poultry Ltd is trying to build a battery farm near Ripon capable of holding 360 thousand chickens. We call upon North Yorkshire council to reject this application Alongside the objections to ba...

Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…

Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures

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We're asking the new Democracy Minister to make the Representation of the People Bill truly transformative for our democracy. Please sign our letter!

Last year, the government delivered new legislation to prevent underperforming water companies from offering bonus payments to their executives.

I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well?

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

A PJM market watchdog calls the shift a "massive wealth transfer" to tech companies, but there's a peak-demand loophole.

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions

These financiers want to remodel the UK into a form that suits them – one that could threaten to erode the barriers between crime and business, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The deal saw nearly 150 countries agree to a 15% global minimum tax to stop large global companies shifting profits to jurisdictions with lower taxes – but the US will be exempt