Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers. Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods. Continue reading...

Neither an Arab reconstruction plan nor an American one have much chance of success

Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian. Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Melissa is expected to strengthen even further into a major catastrophic hurricane when making landfall in Jamaica.