The UK could end its reliance on exporting plastic waste by 2030 to support the creation of 5,400 new jobs and take responsibility for the environmental impact of its waste, according to research.

Some have suggested that corn syrup, which is added to so many American foodstuffs, is worse for obesity than other types of sugar.

More than £700 million is being spent at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station on measures expected to save 0.083 salmon and 0.028 sea trout per year.

The old Department of the Environment building on Marsham Street in Westminster, sometimes called the Marsham Towers, gained a reputation as the most hated building in London for several reasons:

Worstall’s Fallacy is to demand what must be done without taking account of what is already done.

It’s a thought experiment to consider whether UK homeless and destitute people could be sent, voluntarily, to a Caribbean island to live in purpose-built accommodation with medical facilities on hand.

To equate backbench MPs with recalcitrant toddlers is to be unfair to recalcitrant toddlers of course.

As with our constant insistence that no business plan survives first contact with the market we need to point out that no moral philosophy survives a confrontation with reality.

Of course the process has been abused - we are talking of politics here so of course it will be abused.

Sometimes UK governments 'float' ideas they say are being considered to assess what the reactions are. 

Ministers will exempt the holders of Wimbledon debentures from strict new rules on reselling live event tickets.

Funding tax reduction