Nurses are collapsing during shifts as extreme heat turns hospitals and care homes into dangerous workplaces. The Royal College of Nursing has described conditions as “inhumane and impossible”, while the government continues to postpone the “bigger questions” of climate adaptation…
The government’s new limit on branded school uniform is a small retreat from an unfair system, but it won’t make uniforms affordable for many working-class families. From September, schools will be allowed to require a maximum of three items carrying…
The British state has assigned just 20 officials to climate adaptation inside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. That’s 20 out of 6,613 staff — only 0.3 percent of the department responsible for protecting the environment and maintaining…
Hundreds of residents in nine blocks of flats in Tower Hamlets have been left without a reliable supply of running water for more than seven months. Taps have repeatedly run dry. Families have struggled to cook, clean, wash and flush…
Thames Water paid its finance chief Steve Buck a £1 million signing-on fee in July while the company was drowning in roughly £20 billion of debt and warning that it could run out of cash by the end of the…
Millions of adults and children in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS trusts prepare another round of service closures and job cuts. Ministers talk about expanding access, but the workers, funding and services needed to provide…
An irreplaceable collection of 318 fossils has left Britain after publicly funded museums said they couldn’t afford it. The sale was legal. That’s precisely the problem. One of the most important collections of Jurassic fossils ever assembled in Britain has…
The US embassy in London is offering money for British projects that promote Washington’s political priorities. Behind the respectable language of “public diplomacy” lies a familiar imperial practice: using money and institutional influence to make the interests of the US…
Palantir has secured hundreds of millions of pounds in British state contracts while paying a fraction of the headline corporation tax rate. Its tax arrangements show how monopoly capital turns public dependence into private accumulation. Palantir paid just £2.1m in…
Britain could face its worst harvest on record after months of drought and extreme heat devastated crops across England and Wales. Farmers are warning that working people will be made to pay through higher prices and smaller portions in supermarkets….
