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Here’s why Labour is struggling to deliver: the British state is immense, but pull the levers and nothing happens | Larry Elliott

At home, the machinery of government creaks badly – abroad, a leaden UK lags far behind dynamic competitors. A radical overhaul is needed, says G...

2017: November - February Political Notes - Richard Stallman

Outsourcing state services to companies makes the services unaccountable. That is a disaster directly - but it has a secondary bad effect: ministers have little effective control to convert new policies into changes in actions. Outsourcing may appear cheaper for the state in a superficial sense, but it

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Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown

New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

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In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong?

With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. Bu...

* Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK* in winter. This won't directly hurt anyone, but it is a sign of the magnitude of changes we have caused in natural

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Slowly but surely, a state can repress its people. Why is the UK channelling Viktor Orbán’s Hungary? | Lydia Gall

I know enough about the erosion of civil rights to fear what I now see in the UK. Britons should understand how this ends, says Lydia Gall of Human...

Step by step, Britain is following the path of fascism that Orbán imposed on Hungary.