The cost of energy in Europe has consumed countless column inches – and for good reason, with prices higher than ever.

As the Chancellor puts the finishing touches to his Budget, he should look abroad for the key to building national prosperity: growing regional economies. They are the building blocks for prosperity. Other countries, especially in Europe, know this well. It has escaped us in the United Kingdom.

When you imagine energy-intensive businesses, there are obvious examples that spring to mind. Images abound of grand factories and industrial towns, steel producers and mass manufacturers.

The Online Safety Bill is an important piece of legislation which will help keep users safe in many forms of online activity. However, the bill is in danger of making a critical oversight – immersive online experiences, using technology like virtual reality (VR), must be made subject to the same provisions as other types of user-generated content.

The second HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day is on 28 February 2023. It was launched by the Sero Project who are part of the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition — in collaboration with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, community activists and public policy organisations across the United States. The day is a call to give life to the various statements and policy recommendations recognising the negative impacts of HIV criminalisation on health and rights.

It’s not often you can present decision-makers with a sure-fire solution to a problem. One with real-world evidence that it not only works, but reduces inequalities, saves lives, and while saving money at the same time.

Few subjects cause as much friction between front and back benches as planning and housing targets.

The adult social care sector in England is seeing fee increases of 9-10% for the next financial year, based on the current RPI and a "fair cost of care exercise." However, these increases are still below market costs by as much as 40%, which puts pressure on providers to fill beds with self-funded residents to compensate for the low prices paid by commissioners. A minimum national tariff for adult social care is urgently needed to avoid further bed blocking in the NHS and to reduce insolvencies, but without it, adult social care in the UK will be unviable.

After housing costs, childcare is the biggest single expense facing parents with young children. In some cases, it costs even more than their mortgage or rent. Like thousands of parents in England with pre-school age children, as I rush out the door, packed lunches, coats, and toys in hand, I think to myself: there’s got to be a better system than this.

The COVID-19 pandemic put global health systems under incredible strain. The result? The response to HIV, as well as other infectious diseases, is further off-track. Yet there remains reason for optimism.

The challenges facing the housing market are well documented; too many people are living in expensive, unsuitable, poor-quality homes.

A study of the impact of a changing climate on world civilisation from the beginning of recorded history to the present day, Peter Frankopan debunks many long-held assumptions

In a stinging polemic, architectural historian and author of Making Dystopia Professor James Stevens Curl gives The House his view on exactly how Britain’s built environment lost its way

With 1.7 million off-grid homes in need of decarbonisation solutions, OFTEC sets out the main insights gathered from switching kerosene heated properties to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil.

As part of the inaugural Decarbonising Transport Week, Hitachi Rail's Jim Brewin explains how battery trains can help achieve the UK's net zero and levelling up objectives.

The only way to solve the housing crisis is by building more homes – but the number we need is daunting. Centre for Cities’ new report shows that, compared to the average European country, 4.3 million homes are missing from the United Kingdom.

The government’s new Illegal Migration Bill is the long awaited “answer” to the problem of small boats crossing the Channel.

In 2019, a petition on the parliamentary site entitled “Stop councils being forced to build twice the number of houses we need” emerged online. The summary of the petition ran: “We need new houses, but we want affordable new developments to fit into local infrastructure, to help build a sense of community and pride. The countryside is being swamped by huge housing developments. Small rural villages turned into suburbs, through ugly big out-of-town satellite developments.”

We're one of Europe's largest wasters of food in Europe, with households throwing away 4.5m tonnes of edible food each year worth £3.5bn.

Richard Norton-Taylor and Nick Kent have provided us a true public service by bringing shocking verbatim scenes from the inquiry to the stage

International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the achievements of women – whether social, economic, political or cultural.

It is a tremendous privilege to be back this year for The House magazine's fourth instalment of Women in Westminster: The 100; celebrating the outstanding achievements of women around Westminster, who have demonstrated over the past year that they are not only influential in their own field but have the talent and platform to inspire the next generation to make a difference

As I put my six-year-old daughter to bed last night, she asked me what International Women’s Day was.

Ahead of the Spring budget next week, the Institution of Engineering and Technology has called for greater flexibility in the apprenticeship levy to allow employers to develop digital skills and unlock the UK's potential in new technology.