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Speaking at the launch of a new Tufton Street pressure group, Neil Philip Anderson proposed ‘grassroots local action’ to put the issue on to the political agenda.  by Max Colbert

With billions of pounds wasted and hundreds of thousands dead, the Covid inquiry is a daily reminder of Tory failure. But it’s hard to prove that Ministers’ bungling broke the law.

We gave Ministers a final chance to come clean over the risks to their plans for net zero. But the Government is trying to buy time before the weaknesses in its climate strategy are revealed.

We answer some of the questions being asked over our concerns about Palantir, the National Data Opt-Out and the legal challenge we are preparing to protect the privacy of NHS patient data in England.  

After a challenge from Good Law Project and Coal Action Network, illegal mining at Ffos-y-Fran is due to halt on 30 November

The shady spy-tech company Palantir has been given a £330m NHS England data contract. We’re fighting to make sure our private health information is kept private.

Ministers now face little choice but to disclose the risks that put their plans in danger of missing climate targets. But what are they trying to hide?

We can reveal that just before he was appointed Environment Secretary, Steve Barclay accepted a donation from a Conservative Party peer who has funded the Global Warming Policy Foundation – a group that lobbies against policies to tackle the climate emergency.

When Dr Aseem Malhotra spread covid vaccine scares, the General Medical Council refused to investigate. Now we’re helping a doctor make sure the regulator does its job.

Good Law Project has been supporting Yours in Scouting- a campaign led by abuse victims- to overhaul safeguarding in the Scouts. “Our voices have been heard,” says Sheanna Patelmaster, in her guest blog:

Almost 10% of PPE contracts signed by the Government show ‘some degree of dissatisfaction’, with storage costs for unused equipment currently running at £14m a month. by Max Colbert

Government failure has left children at risk from failing concrete. Now a company owned by a Tory donor is set to clean up.

The UK arm of Alliance Defending Freedom, a US pressure group which helped overturn Roe v Wade, almost doubled its spending between 2020 and 2022.

The boss of Wernick Buildings Limited has given the Tories over £71,000. by Max Colbert

Millions have been wasted on sub-standard beds bought during the pandemic for the Government’s seven Nightingale hospitals, our latest investigation with the Daily Mirror has revealed.

Last year the Government spent £312m on storing unused or unusable PPE bought during the pandemic. Why are they handing out huge new contracts for facemasks?