Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water

The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.

In a historically conservative state won by President-elect Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are leaning in to the prospect of a Democratic Senate.

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Post Office scandal featured heavily as the House of Lords debated duty of candour Bill.

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Our Sporting Heritage. Our Community. Our Right to Know. For generations, sport at Feethams has been part of the story of Darlington. Land and sporting facilities became associated with a wider commit...

Alt: The dog (representing, in this instance, Dave playing Bart) from the "this is fine" meme is sitting on a chair looking happy and smug whilst fire rages about in the background.

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...

For our June 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria Adrian puts forward the book Piranesi by Susanna Clarke for Emma’s consideration.   Other talking points:  The State of What the F Is Going On  The joy of found document sources  The Triangle of Information ™  Two views of the nicest character in fiction  Analogues with dementia  Shadows on a cave wall  Psychic ideating communion(!)  One author enters, two classics leave  The ignorant unreliable narrator    Media Mentions:  Mythago Wood, novel by Robert Holdstock (and our coverage of it here:   The Magician’s Nephew, novel by CS Lewis  Red Dwarf TV series (very tangentially!)  Wayne’s World sketch series and movies dir. Penelope Spheeris  Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, novel by Susanna Clarke  The Life of Brian, movie dir. Terry Jones (also very tangentially!)  Planetfall series of novels by Emma Newman  Next month we look at Do You Dream of Terra Two? by Temi Oh   Adrian’s music recommendation: Damnd Anthem’s cover of Muse’s Uprising      Emma’s latest writing is included in Creative Futures (Beyond and Within)  which was recently shortlisted for a BSFA Award  Adrian’s most recent book is the graphic novel Salvation’s Child     If you'd like to support the show, and get an additional monthly patrons-only episode, you can become a patron at    You can buy our official t-shirts and mugs at   Follow us at:  Emma: @emmanewman@bsky.social and    Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and  

US president says US will have ‘majority’ control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves

Thirteen MILLION of us are still locked out of dental care. After two years of ministers promising to finally fix NHS dentistry, shocking new data just revealed that almost nothing has changed. That ...

Burpham Post Office is to shut its doors on Saturday, as 52 close across the country.

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

From gaming to AI, GPUs can make a big mess for the planet.