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

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

V isions of the parched ground of last ...

The railway isn’t completely broken, and a “new vision” may only bring us a series of smaller improvements

Transport Select Committee report on investment exposes years of inconsistency and uncertainty in key areas

→ 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