The People's Commission is launching its report on the water industry today and I'm going to be there. The only report about the water industry that you'll ever need to read and the only one that matters.

Talking about the Port of London Authority, I’m not sure many people grasp how fundamentally undemocratic the organisation is. The PLA was gifted the Thames by Parliament in 1908 & has zero democratic oversight by Londoners, the Mayor, GLA or even the UK Government. If you don’t

“You are Englishmen, mind your privilege, give not away your right” So spoke William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) to the jury as he was bound & gagged after the jury refused to come to the guilty verdict that the judge in the case was demanding. This led to the famous Bushel’s

The headline figure here is bad enough, as is the fact that Thames Water is the worst offender, but it doesn’t even begin to capture how bad things actually are out there, as most illegal sewage flows into our rivers are not even included in this data. As far as I know, not a

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Water companies say they're putting billions in" Feargal Sharkey, "They took £84 billion in dividends and created £74 billion of debt.. We've been cheated" "There is no pollution control in this country anyone, the companies are out of control" "These

I'm going to try a little experiment. It's just gone 9:00am, London and parts of southern England are under an "Amber" weather warning, let's how long it takes for the sewage dumping to start and how it progresses over the next few hours. Oh look, it's only been raining for a

Labour promised in its general election manifesto to ban bonuses for water bosses. But it looks like the environment secretary has been outsmarted by the companies who are getting around the ban. I investigated how theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?" Shame on Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer - this isn't the change any of us

"Southern Water users urged to keep daily task to '4 minutes' amid hosepipe ban." Meanwhile Southern Water's fat cat CEO Lawrence Gosden has just seen his salary double to £1.4 million, customer's bills have gone up by a stonking 53% and the number of serious pollution incidents

As a very keen allotment holder I will fight this nonsensical The Labour Party policy with a fury!! Allotments keep us mentally and physically healthy, give us fresh food, inspire us to give our produce away in a gift culture, and are a haven for many ecosystems.

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Government says it would cost £99bn to bring water into public hands. That figure's based on a report paid for by the water companies which Dieter Helm has called 'economically illiterate'. In any scenario public ownership of water makes most sense. Join our mailing list

The Church of England (Sothwark Diocese) plan to develop this corner of Kent / Surrey in Limpsfield into a large housing development, under Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. An application has gone in to legally remove a public footpath, prior to planning permission. Prime

Calling all river guardians! With the global Rights of Rivers movement now taking off in the UK, i’m excited to share that Lawyers for Nature are convening a National River Guardian Summit this autumn. We would love as many River Guardians as possible to join us to learn, discuss &

To be generous to her, of course Yvette Cooper may not know she is lying.

You’re proud? Are you serious? As a regulator you let a literal *island* of sewage filth build-up for decades without lifting a finger to stop it & now you’re proud that you provided “support” for it to be cleaned-up? Another example of why the Environment Agency needs to be

This is a growing scandal. Not only are Environment Agency not enforcing the law on environmental crime & stopping the destruction of Nature. Not only are they failing to restore Nature themselves & undo the damage they & their predecessors have inflicted upon on rivers & natural

Developers say swift bricks cost too much. Let’s talk CEO salaries! Make it law: every new building must include homes for wildlife.

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught.

Persimmon Homes gets green light to rip out 120m of hedgerows at Ilminster nature reserve, paving the way for 360 homes, despite concerns over wildlife loss and damage to protected green space.