There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

A YOUGOV poll this year places the economy, health and the environment as the top three concerns of the electorate — but this is a false division.
Both the economy and health fold into the climate and environmental emergency. The former two cannot be addressed without first tackling the causes of climate breakdown and the decline of the natural world. There is no economy on a dead planet.
The Earth’s biosphere and climate are inextricably linked. Global heating has exacerbated the degradation of the natural world and, conversely, the decline in nature feeds the climate emergency. Restoring nature alongside cutting emissions is crucial to limiting temperature rises to 1.5°C.

As summer nears, TOM HARDY explains how unions are organising heat strikes and cool stations while calling for legal maximum workplace temperatures — because employers currently have no duty to protect workers from dangerous heat


