Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires Many complained online that piercingly loud tone was ‘overreach’ while others lamented lack of action on decarbonisation The Guardian - UK · Aug 15
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025
Boris Johnson’s former aide ‘Party Marty’ gets public service honour Covid justice campaigners criticise award for Martin Reynolds, who arranged No 10 lockdown garden party The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024
Two-thirds of UK benefits claimants with debts ‘have gone without food’ Damning figures revealed in DWP report, which Labour says was suppressed by the previous government The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024
British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024
Peter Andre dances with ex-cabinet minister during performance at Conservative Party conference The singer joked the Tories had tried to “book Robbie Williams but he wouldn’t come” before launching into his set Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2024
UK MPs urged to give up freebies from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms Health groups challenge Keir Starmer to ban firms behind ‘unhealthy products’ from lobbying by giving gifts The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024
Former Tory minister Therese Coffey applied for job in Labour government Liz Truss ally applied to for job advertised by the Treasury, but was rejected from role The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2024
Thérèse Coffey was turned down for Labour Treasury job UK director of European development bank reports to Rachel Reeves, who has been critical of previous government The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2024
Campaigners fear plan to fight River Wye pollution has been shelved Letters revealed under FoI laws show council asked environment secretary to investigate plan The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2024
What happened to all the MPs with TikTok accounts? Politiktok has gone all quiet Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024
Farmer Rish! woos the NFU conference in full-on panic to secure rural vote Downing Street team was in love-bombing mode at farmers’ union meeting in Birmingham The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Ministers urged not to play culture wars over species reintroductions in England Exclusive: Head of government taskforce calls for evidence not anecdote in debate over the beaver, white-tailed eagle and others The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024
Like all supervillains, the Tories will meet their match As the crumbling Conservative party lays waste to the UK, a plucky band of heroes are forensically unspinning the spin The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024 It’s the latest episode of The Tories – and it makes Squid Game look like the Brownies Watch as they stab themselves in the back and shoot themselves in the foot over the Rwanda policy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2024 Liberal Democrats bend the truth in latest election leaflet The party has a reputation for telling porkies
The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2023 Friday briefing: 72 mystery genders, 15-minute cities, seven eco bins, and an opinion on MOTD In today’s newsletter: Homelessness as a lifestyle choice, extreme sex ed and Rishi ‘Seven Bins’ Sunak – we round up the best of 2023’s culture war chaos
The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023 John Crace on the villains of 2023: ‘We used to debate whether she was dim or vindictive. The answer appears to be both’ This year’s rogue’s gallery is full to the brim. The Guardian’s sketch writer picks out some of the biggest rotters, from Suella and SBF to Elon Musk and Lord Dave
The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023 UK ministers ‘misled public’ when scrapping air quality regulations Exclusive: Documents show warnings that changes would weaken environmental protections were ignored
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2023 Thérèse Coffey says she ‘came close to dying’ from brain abscess Conservative MP blames stress of job as under-secretary of state in Department for Environment for 2018 illness
The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023 Labour vows to ‘rewire Britain’ as pylon plans spark row in Tory party Opposition vows to tackle rural connection delays to the grid while Conservatives call for offshore network to preserve landscapes
The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023 Most foods experience a revival at some point, even chicken livers, but not the humble turnip Like Thérèse Coffey said, we should all learn to cherish this overlooked winter root, but obsess? Maybe not
The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023 England’s nature chief calls for building on green belt to solve housing crisis Tony Juniper believes new homes and protection for green spaces and wildlife should not be seen as opposites
The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2023 Thérèse Coffey says she nearly died from ministerial stress Former environment secretary says government work stresses left her hospitalised for a month nearly five years ago
The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023 Labour should legalise beaver releases, says Sadiq Khan London mayor says releasing animals into wild is environmentally sound and a Labour vote-winner