How can the UK secure reliable, sustainable water supplies under growing climate and population pressures? That was the question at the heart of a recent Prospect roundtable put together in collaborat

A broken water system

V isions of the parched ground of last ...

In December 2025, Storm Bram battered Britain, bringing 90mph winds and severe flooding. The River Ouse swept through the historic city of York, and water spewed out of culverts and submerged streets

At the start of June 2013, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) appeared to be dead in the water. It was almost 18 months since the then European commissioner for justice, Vi

→ After her sixth flood in three decades, Heather Shepherd has stopped trying to keep the River Severn out of her Shropshire home. “I just say, come on in,” she tells Big Issue. “Sit down, and let me