Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging is the right thing to do. But, we need more time to get it right.

Earlier this year, the government announced how £2.1bn of the Levelling Up Fund has been allocated. The aims of the funding are to “create new jobs, drive economic growth, help restore people’s pride in the places where they live, and spread opportunity more equally”.

In an occasional series, staff from Parliament’s libraries give The House choice nuggets from the archives. This week, Professor Grant Hill-Cawthorne, House of Commons librarian and managing director of research and information, looks at education and special educational needs

For 15 years very few have had reason to think about inflation and interest rates.

Following a recent parliamentary drop-in event, NOAH set out how we can deliver a thriving Animal Health Sector through the GB Veterinary Medicines Regulations Review.

With the Global Plastics Treaty starting to take shape, PoliticsHome reports back from Day 3 of the University of Portsmouth’s PlasticsFuture conference, which included a series of panel discussions, keynote speeches and short talks on how we can get the best out of the international response to deal with the plastic pollution crisis.

The American political scientist Harold Lasswell famously defined politics as “who gets what, when, how”. Recently, various pieces of research from the United States have demonstrated that the answer to the first part of Lasswell’s question is that policies supported by the rich get implemented more often than those supported by the poor. And a fascinating piece of research just published in the British Journal of Political Science has revealed that the same sort of policy congruence applies in Europe.

High energy prices have become a sad fact of life for households across the country.

University funding has led to some of the tightest parliamentary votes.

The Tories are facing a difficult time in the polls of late. Writer and consultant John Oxley argues that they have more to boast about on their education record than many think.

When Lord Speaker John McFall heard me singing the praises of Tory MP Charles Walker on the Rest Is Politics podcast, he had the idea of bringing me and Charles together to talk about mental health.

Following the publication of Hologic’s report into Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, ‘The right patients, the right setting, the right clinicians’, we reflect on the need to improve diagnosis and treatment of the condition, and tackle the backlog of gynaecological appointments.

I find myself in an almost constant state of despair when I consider the way in which this nation is being run, especially when it comes to hideously blighted towns and cities, dereliction, vandalism, the destruction of fine old buildings which seem to have a habit of ‘going on fire’ as though they spontaneously combust, when it is certain they have been deliberately torched, and a great deal more.

Ian Dunt has produced a well-researched and fluently written examination of our dysfunctional political system

University of Sheffield Vice-Chancellor, Professor Koen Lamberts, writes on the importance of academia, industry and government working together to build a more sustainable future.

Chief Executive of SSE plc, Alistair Phillips-Davies, outlines recommendations from the company's delivery plan to invest in and build clean energy infrastructure.

By 20 October 2022, I – a resilient and confident school leader – was broken.

I was a foster parent for young refugees who came to Kent via the Channel, but were too old to live on their own.

With ingenious plotting and brilliant puppetry, Spitting Image The Musical’s approach to humour is both caustic and suitably silly

Recent changes to the Treasure Act will redefine what counts as ‘treasure’. But will it mean that more found items appear on public display, or create new problems for museums and others? Chris Chafin reports. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall

This Net Zero Week, the Chartered Institute of Building sets out how Government can embrace long-term energy incentive strategies.

Lawyer and member of the New Democracy Political Committee, Christina Georgaki, writes on the aftermath of the Greek legislative elections and priorities for Kyriakos Mitsotakis's government moving forward.

In the wake of the pandemic, a staggering 1.7 million children are missing the equivalent of a morning a week of school. Author and journalist Harriet Sergeant argues that in the wake of the pandemic, the government has let children down

Ensuring the UK housing stock is energy efficient will play a major role in ensuring the government reaches its net-zero targets. Baroness Hayman of Ullock, Shadow Spokesperson for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, sets out Labour’s vision on green housing and planning.