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London’s running dry
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Thatcher started the water scandal
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Why I’m taking a stand in Ilkley
Sewage discharges are a regular practice in Britain and they are a threat to people’s health. The public are outraged
The anglers spotted the water crisis first
How we treat our land is revealed in its freshwaters and the anglers are there to notice it first
Just don’t eat the Bude mussels
Decades ago, holidaymakers in Bude knew that when you went in the sea, you kept your mouth shut. Today, that rule is back
We are what we drink
Humanity’s profound physical and spiritual link with water
Why I had to pick this battle
Humanity could not exist without water. So why are we destroying our rivers?
London’s running dry
If the capital runs out of water, what then?
Thatcher started the water scandal
The roots of Britain’s water crisis, like so many now facing the country, lay in Thatcherite deregulation
America, nihilist nation
The shining city on the hill has become a citadel of darkness. Whoever wins, American optimism is dead
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Whoever wins the White House, this knife-edge campaign holds important lessons on policy, presentation and the new politics
We are what we drink
Humanity’s profound physical and spiritual link with water
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The King must lead the preparations for reparations
The global north needs to be building friendships with as many of our former colonies as possible
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You’re lucky to get a few seconds between spotting roadside refuse when driving in Britain. Tackling this is an easy win for the government
Can you stop the flow of time?
According to Henri Bergson, everything is flux and that’s difficult to capture in words
Trump must not decide the fate of Ukraine
If Trump wins a second term, he will force Ukraine into a humiliating peace deal with Russia
Life on the road with The Rest is Politics
We asked our listeners at the O2 whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick should be the next Tory leader. The response was bleak for both candidates
Plato’s warning to American democracy
Even if the US doesn’t slide towards tyranny on November 5, almost half the electorate are going to end up disgruntled
It’s about emotion, Keir, not economics
If Labour can restore a sense of community, it will reap as much political benefit as any amount of good economic data
Melania Trump and the right to choose
Is her forthcoming memoir’s defence of abortion an indication that Republicans won’t be so hardline on this issue if elected?
The unwelcome return of the Brexit grifters
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson are journalists at heart and for years have got away with far more from their own kind as a consequence
Tradition shouldn’t outweigh animal cruelty
Arguments for trail hunting merely come from wishful thinking motivated by a romanticised view of country life
Hypocrite Farage is back in the US of A
The Reform leader is out campaigning for Donald Trump after lambasting Labour staffers for doing similar for Kamala Harris
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The new Conservative leader appears to recall growing up in a very different Nigeria to the one which existed
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Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots
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How badly will Trump’s tariffs hurt Britain?
The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars
Blame Brexit for the small boats crisis
The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best
The EU are baffled by the Budget and Starmer
Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels
Is this the craziest defence of Brexit you’ve ever heard?
One Leaver says she’s still glad she voted for it… but there’s a good reason for that
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Rachel Reeves will neglect the fact that Brexit and being outside of the single market costs the UK “more than £40 billion a year”
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Pressure to leave the European Convention on Human Rights won’t stop even if Robert Jenrick loses the Tory leadership election
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As locals, we know that Trump doesn’t think too highly of Brussels
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As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market
Is this Trump’s woman in Europe?
Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has held her extreme political instincts in check – so far. If Trump wins, will that change?
The front Europe doesn’t know it’s fighting
As a “stolen” election damages their country’s European dream, Georgians fear their divide with the west is becoming irreversible
How Europe should deal with Trump
As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market
Meet the Ukrainians who could win it for Kamala
A diaspora of 120,000 in Pennsylvania fear Trump and could turn a state he lost by just 80,000 votes last time
You need to read this book on Ukraine
The story of Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko captures the reason why the country must fight, why it must win and why the west needs to support it all the way
Can Ukraine Win?
Russian victory spells disaster for Europe and without urgent support to Ukraine, this is inevitable
Trump must not decide the fate of Ukraine
If Trump wins a second term, he will force Ukraine into a humiliating peace deal with Russia
Ignoring the sirens in Kyiv
Most people in the European capital city don’t want to talk about the war – ignoring the horrors of the Eastern Front is the only way to get by
Tbilisi’s war of the walls
Georgia’s disputed election has been hailed as a victory for Vladimir Putin, but murals in the capital paint a different picture
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Is a new €1bn infrastructure fund the answer to Europe’s flooding problems? Or is a more drastic plan needed?
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