The prison population in England and Wales has doubled over the last 30 years. It now stands at over 86,000: Britain has the highest incarceration rate of any Western European country.

Before the early 2000s, Britain’s universities were almost wholly funded by taxpayers, but the amount halved between 1975 and 2000.

The government has already committed a massive £12 billion to carrying on the Ukraine war since February 2022.

The queues of would-be patients waiting to register with a Bristol dental practice that offered NHS treatment that hit the headlines in early February were a shocking reminder of the state of dentistry.

East-West Rail is a project currently renewing and rebuilding a largely disused rail line between Oxford and Cambridge.

As an example of how the Climate Change Committee’s targets fail to mesh with reality, consider how our homes are to be heated...

As workers began to challenge the power of capital and employers at the start of the industrial revolution, trade unions were simply made illegal by the Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800.

Very much like capitalism in Britain, the EU is clueless about how to run an economy. A particular weakness is the European Central Bank, run by the famously helpless Christine Lagarde.

Before the Labour government under Tony Blair, immigration from the EU was substantial, but not overwhelming.

A new rare earth refinery – the Pensana development at the Saltend Chemicals Park, Humber (Port of Hull), is to be operational by 2023. 

New EU rules for Covid tests are set to replace British law in Northern Ireland despite warnings that this may cause shortages and a lower quality of tests.

Worldwide, lithium occurs in brines (salt lakes, salt pans).

Closure of the Rough gas storage field in 2017 made Britain increasingly dependent on others for our basic energy supply.

A database published by the government in October revealed that raw sewage poured into east London rivers for thousands of hours in 2020.