Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has done deals to spend £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert reports

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Welsh Water has fallen short on sewage pollution, despite having no shareholders for over two decades, chief acknowledges

Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority

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Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...