Environmental regulations ensuring the ‘reasonable’ cleaning up of land contaminated by past industrial activity will be reduced because ‘they create a burden for the housing industry’. Photograph: Robert Harding Picture Library/Alamy Environmental regulations set to be slashed Environmentalists angry over government plans to ‘cut red tape’ on rules over air, land and noise pollution and [...]
ial 48 A policeman confronts rioters in Tottenham, north London, where the disturbances began in August before spreading rapidly across the country. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA hours Damning leaked report says officers had to use own phones as equipment shortages led to chaos in forces’ response reddit this Mark Townsend, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 3 December [...]
Liam Fox claims thrown into doubt by Dubai hotel records Adam Werritty (left) and Liam Fox at a meeting in Dubai in 2007. Adam Werritty said he was from defence secretary’s office when he booked into Shangri-La reddit this Robert Booth in Dubai, Jason Burke and Patrick Wintour The Guardian, Wednesday 12 October 2011 Article [...]
David Cameron is facing growing pressure over his appointment of Andy Coulson. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron is facing growing pressure this weekend over his hiring of Andy Coulson after the Labour leadership demanded to know if the former News of the World editor ever saw documents inside Downing Street that should have been available [...]
The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 7th June 2011 Love, economists have discovered, is depreciating rapidly. On current trends, it is expected to fall by £1.78 per passion-hour between now and 2030. The opportunity cost of a [...]
