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UK political parties are getting the jitters over green policies after a special election verdict

Environmentalists are cautioning Britain’s main political parties not to water down their climate change promises

The Independent UK

300 Years Before the Industrial Revolution, the UK’s Wildlife Looked Strikingly Different

In the early modern period, wolves, beavers, and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland.

Inverse

Firm behind Roald Dahl’s modern rewrite transforms Britain’s most-loved comic

Inclusive Minds, who helped remove ‘offensive’ material from the Roald Dahl novels, have played a role in the transformation of The Beano.

The Independent UK

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Should we confront the toxic legacy of blackface … or just forget it?

Racist 19th-century minstrelsy survived into 1970s Britain. David Olusoga has developed a TV show on its long, shameful history but wonders if he should have

The Guardian - UK

We’ve caught the distraction disease – we do anything to avoid the problems we face

Politicians aren’t the only ones to blame for a lack of focus on real issues, as culture war debates waste ever more of our time and energy

The Guardian - UK

Flagship Brexit trade deal with Pacific has ‘no major economic gains for UK’

Top trade experts say conditions for hidden benefits claimed by Kemi Badenoch are ‘highly unlikely’

The Independent UK

Gove to announce plans to make home extensions and loft conversions easier

The Housing Secretary also plans to slash red tape to make it simpler to convert shop space into living space.

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Dropping green pledges would be ‘political suicide’, Sunak and Starmer warned

Science and business leaders say lurch away from climate agenda after byelections would be deeply unpopular with voters and damage UK’s reputation

The Guardian - UK

‘We are at 50% of the quota we had’: boss of UK’s last long-range trawler rues ‘squandered’ Brexit hopes

The Kirkella used to bring in 10% of the cod and haddock sold in chip shops. But the post-EU settlement means its quotas have been slashed. Can it survive?

The Guardian - UK

Why is a Thai lager the “official beer of the British Open?” We were wondering the same thing

Singha is brewed in the UK by Shepherd and Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer.

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Squirrel Nation by Peter Coates review – glad to be grey

What’s really behind the British favouritism towards red squirrels, animals once derided as ‘tree rats’?

The Guardian - UK

Private equity pioneer Guy Hands to leave Terra Firma ‘when I’m 64’

Dealmaker and ardent Brexit critic to leave senior posts at firm he founded more than 20 years ago

The Guardian - UK

UK must repatriate more nationals in Syria, says terrorism policy adviser

Britain has been urged by UN to help young children in Syrian detention camps

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: jingoism in odd places on a visit to post-Brexit Blighty

Supermarket goods festooned with union jacks; ‘made in Britain’ labels everywhere. How my former homeland has changed

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Delays and jams expected as UK’s great summer getaway reaches its peak

About 13 million holidaymakers will take to Britain’s roads, airports and ferry ports this weekend

Evening Standard

Britain’s creaking courts and the long wait for justice

Rape and sex crime victims are trapped in the delays of the criminal justice system. Victims Commissioner Claire Waxman speaks out about the justice crisis.

The Independent UK

Sunak's Conservatives suffer 2 big defeats but avoid a wipeout in trio of UK special elections

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suffered two thumping defeats in a trio of special elections but avoided a drubbing after holding onto former premier Boris Johnson’s seat in suburban London

Evening Standard

“It’s 45 degrees, we’re suffocating” — inside Europe’s heatwave nightmare

Thousands find themselves trapped in the inferno currently gripping the Mediterranean. From wildfire fears to abandoned trips, Isolde Walters and Katie Strick speak to the Londoners enduring holidays in hell

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What do you get if greed is rife, government stupid and planning abused? Canary Wharf and other such horrors

As big firms exit what came to be a symbol of the office age, we can finally start thinking about building truly civilised cities, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on boundary changes: the voters draw the line

Editorial: This week’s byelections are a sharp reminder that a new political map of Britain is now up for grabs

The Independent UK

Afghan judge who put Taliban members behind bars ‘overjoyed’ to be given sanctuary in UK

The judge spent two years in hiding in Pakistan as she battled to get to Britain - but says a ‘huge weight’ has now been lifted

The Independent UK

UK donated 184,000 more artillery shells to Ukraine than planned, says Wallace

The Defence Secretary was outlining the extent of Britain’s support for the Ukrainian war effort against Russia.

The Guardian - UK

Even Britain’s free market bible has turned on the Tories. Do they have any friends left?

The Economist speaks to capitalism’s international elite. Its criticism of the party’s 13-year rule reflects a contempt that is now global, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Independent UK

Britain says it was 'regrettable' that the EU called the Falklands by Argentina's preferred name

The British government says the European Union made a “regrettable choice of words” when it referred to the U.K.-run Falkland Islands as the Malvinas, the name preferred by Argentina

The Guardian - UK

I thought the government’s plan to protect Britain from extreme heat would be bad. It’s worse than that

Politicians seem to have no idea of the action required if we want to keep a functioning society and economy, says academic Bill McGuire

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