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www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... ‘We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation

writesbright.substack.com/p/meet-farag... Meet Farage’s rich cronies

UK banks put £75bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.semafor.com/article/04/2... The group chats that changed America

Only three people ever prosecuted for covering up England’s illegal sewage spills www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘Why do they dislike me so much?’: the trials, trolls and triumphs of Britain’s most divisive barrister www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them

It’s a curious feature of right-wing populist loons like Trump and Britain’s Brexiteers, that while they denounce genuine expertise in every field, they themselves claim to be expert in everything

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The rise of end times fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs www.theguardian.com/environment/...

pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/i... “40 years of lax antitrust enforcement has produced an American economy in which nearly every sector is dominated by a monopoly, a duopoly, or a cartel”

Hillsborough families call for ‘all or nothing’ law as Labour expected to break pledge www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How can foreign governments tax American big tech? 1. Digital Permanent Establishment Tax 2. Data Extraction Tax 3. Digital Advertising Levy 4. Cloud Computing Tax 5. Value-Added Data Tax 6. Digital Marketplace Tax 7. Algorithmic Tax 8. Digital Real Estate Tax 9. Intangible Asset Tax

‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The barbarians are at the gates of the sewage works www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Senior Tories and big landlords discuss ways to thwart renters’ rights bill www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Marty Garbus...who represented Nelson Mandela & Václav Havel, said it was the most unfair trial he had ever witnessed." @sdonziger.bsky.social describes the many failings in the @greenpeace.org trial: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Cannes, I saw English councils pander to gilet-wearing property developers – at the cost of their residents www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Islamophobic posts about Sadiq Khan more than double in a year, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just Stop Oil protester, 78, who was returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Green campaigners attempt citizen’s arrests of Thames Water executives www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Whistleblower’s exposé of the cult of Zuckerberg reveals peril of power-crazy tech bros www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK government embracing AI? I’m sorry, that’s nonsense and I can prove it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK drops down list of affluent nations after decade of stagnation, NIESR finds www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Philip Hammond has made millions from 30 roles while member of Lords www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Russia still wields huge influence inside Ceferin’s Uefa despite bans www.theguardian.com/football/blo...