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Burnham: Good COP or bad COP?

As the prime minister heads to COP, the UN’s annual climate change conference, does the government have a coherent message? With the cost of the green transition starting to bite, the government faces tough questions on…

Rafe Fletcher: Why the Conservatives should challenge meritocracy

He epitomises rugged individualism in his tale of overcoming childhood poverty and familial abandonment. But Bounderby is humiliated when his devoted mother Mrs Pegler is inadvertently introduced to the town. We learn…

National security of all countries at risk due to climate crisis, UK foreign secretary warns

"National security is the next frontier of the fight for climate action; the scenarios once of science fiction are now regular occurrences in the daily news," Miliband told the Guardian before his speech to world leaders…

As a result, she suggested a postcode lottery had developed with different levels of services available depending on where people live. And she also highlighted the fees that self-funders pay, saying they were much…

Trump’s war with Iran has been terrible for us all but wanting the Ayatollahs gone is a noble cause

The Iranian regime – we don’t call it a government because to do so would be to misdescribe the bizarre and opaque way myriad factions in their system work – wants to hurt you. That’s the simple truth The Iranian…

For Trump, Musk and Farage, the message is the same: voters don’t want to be hijacked by billionaires | Rafael Behr

In fact, there is no one richer. As the wealthiest of the US's tech oligarchs Musk could afford to blow huge sums on a failed bid to prop up Republican candidates in Texas, his adoptive home state, in last week's midterm…

Katie Lam: Burnham’s devolution is just a power grab

For somebody who talks so much about devolution, Andy Burnham is remarkably willing to trample over local democracy when people don’t agree with him. He’s already announced that, in areas which have voted to keep council…

Emmanuel Igwe: Kemi must still build trust on welfare

In his speech, he stated that nothing would be said of welfare reform until the Timms Review is released this autumn. After that, the Government will respond before the end of the year with a white paper with legislation…

Magnus Taylor: Let’s return to a pen and paper education

While many European countries, especially the Nordics who led the charge on ‘Edtech’, are now becoming digitally minimalist in their classrooms , Britain is still pressing forward with putting more and more technology…

Whitehall is too ‘tame, reactive and risk-averse’, says UK’s top civil servant

She said fundamental reform of the civil service to improve productivity was essential given the "tight fiscal context". Ministers are grappling with how to deliver higher defence spending in future while protecting the…