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Guido Fawkes14 Jul 2026

WATCH: Nandy Doesn’t Realise That Her Department Wants to Promote BBC Above Independent Press

Lisa Nandy doesn’t appear to understand her own new proposals to starve independent news publishers and promote state-owned ones. Know-nothing Nandy… At the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee yesterday Damian Hinds asked about the potential problems within the Media Green Paper that could see prominence for ‘Public Service Broadcasters’ but not commercial news publishers.…

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Conservative Home14 Jul 2026

Kemi begins her purge of the wets

Every functioning party has red lines. Positions which are so central to its identity that abandoning them means abandoning what the party is for. For Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives, net zero and the ECHR are exactly that kind of question. They are not technical policy disputes to be settled by internal debate. The post Kemi begins her purge of the wets appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes13 Jul 2026

Civil Servants Told to Use ‘Low-Water Plants’ and Avoid Air Conditioning When Working From Home to Help Net Zero

All civil servants at the Care Quality Commission, which is responsible for regulating all health and social care services in England, have been handed a “practical guide to help colleagues reduce their carbon footprint while working from home.” Britain’s wokest and laziest quango strikes again… Staff have been told the guide was written after three…

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The Guardian Politics13 Jul 2026

Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’

Critics accuse ministers of failing to take control of nature crisis and leaving it to private landowners to act voluntarily The government’s plan to protect and restore nature in England by 2030 has been condemned as “pathetic” and “completely insufficient” in the face of the spiralling environmental crisis. The long-awaited plan published on Monday calls for landowners to voluntarily opt to protect and enhance nature, rather than creating legal protections for nature across more of the country

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The Guardian Politics12 Jul 2026

Green MP Hannah Spencer aims to pass law on maximum workplace temperatures

Byelection winner says heatwaves are causing ‘absolute chaos’ and workers need protection from unsafe conditions Hannah Spencer is to introduce a bill in parliament that would pave the way for a maximum workplace temperature in the UK, as the country grapples with increasingly frequent heatwaves. If passed, the legislation will create an independent body to recommend maximum safe workplace temperatures and set out how those recommendations should be implemented. Continue reading...

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Express Politics12 Jul 2026

Left wing activists refuse asylum seekers in their town – their NIMBY hypocrisy stinks

OPINION - JJ ANISIOBI: So the loudest lefty voices also quietly are refusing to house migrants in their leafy green town. Did someone say 'hypocrites'?

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Conservative Home10 Jul 2026

Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

The Conservatives gained a seat from the Lib Dems in Stratford-on-Avon and a seat from an independent in Pembrokeshire. Reform UK gained a seat from Labour in South Lanarkshire and a seat from an independent in Flintshire. The Green Party lost a seat to Labour in Camden and a seat to the Lib Dems in Lambeth. The post Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency

As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health MPs are calling on the UK government to host a televised national climate emergency briefing in response to what has been described as the most “insidious threat to our society”. In November, in the “first-of-its-kind, national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall of the scale of the changes needed to adapt the country to the rapidly changing

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

Once again Trump brought his wrecking ball to the Nato summit, and once again the alliance survived. But for how long? | Paul Taylor

As the US president swung between threats to take Greenland and promises of help for Ukraine, pledges of a ‘stronger Nato’ were lost in the wind Nato leaders survived another nerve-racking summit with Donald Trump and the 77-year-old defence alliance lives to fight another day, proving its durability against Atlantic storms. But it will never feel safe as long as the unpredictable, vengeful and ruthlessly transactional US president is in the White House. As usual, Trump stole all the headlines a

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham is about to face a furious Labour civil war as energy crisis explodes

A key challenges for the next prime minister is ensuring Russia cannot plunge Britain into darkness - but will Andy Burnham dare challenge Labour on net zero?

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Express Politics8 Jul 2026

Ed Miliband dealt huge blow as case for net zero ban on North Sea drilling ripped apart

Surprise figure shows how much damage emissions from gas fields would really cause to global warming

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme at no cost to public welfare: in fact, it would greatly reduce the harm we will suffer. Sorry, did I say £21.7bn? That’s the figure the government has been putting in its

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