Will Hutton

For years they told us climate change wasn’t real. Now they’re telling us it’s too late to do anything about it and we should build more swimming pools and learn to enjoy a “Mediterranean climate.” And apparently start drilling for more oil. Congratulations to the Telegraph for showing how the Right is all over the place when it comes to saving a liveable planet app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74279/co…

In Britain the monarch, after the 1689 Glorious Revolution shares absolute sovereignty with parliament. Power can be lent to cities and city regions: but borrowed it can be withdrawn. Burnham is right. For devolution to stick we need a new settlement. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

The neglect by our pension funds of fantastic British companies with its baleful impact both on pensions and our economic vitality is an ongoing scandal. Yet more evidence today. Foreign bidders woo UK companies with ‘bear hug’ takeover offers giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

As wildfires rage, the right’s denial of the climate crisis has gone up in smoke The effects of extreme weather, be it fires or drought, are all too real. The need for an environmental consensus is one that transcends politics, writes @williamnhutton bit.ly/4brP2xU

Drought, extreme heat, raging wildfires- yet the former consensus on climate change has evaporated. Instead the right argue net zero is a fiction and a con. Adapt to the climate crisis: but do nothing to stop it. This is becoming a civilisational threat. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

FIFA’s attempted sellout of the World Cup to private equity is a beginning. Private money, fuelled by gross US wealth inequality, will be 50% of world GDP by 2035- a civilisational menace. Response is the issue of our times.1st round to UEFA. But next? theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Britain must be wary of US investors who try to ship UK companies to the US. The imperative for more smart UK money to back our founders. But still optimism!! S11 Ep3: Why Britain should back more innovators with Saul Klein - The We Society | Podfollow podfollow.com/the-we-society…

This is the manifesto the Clacton public were waiting for. Many in British public life don’t recognise the lazy positioning of hand-dryers in gents( and ladies’) toilets as crucial issues, but item 17 at last addresses this overlooked reality. Vote Binface!

Let me say this very directly. Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine. The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out. Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.

Britain’s emergent innovation economy is a potential national jewel. One of our top venture investors explains the opportunity- and what drives him. Compelling. S11 Ep3: Why Britain should back more innovators with Saul Klein - The We Society | Podfollow podfollow.com/the-we-society…

There are areas in national life which are so fundamental they demand cross-party support. Climate change is one. Another brave Telegraph writer calls out Badenoch’s dangerous stance. Badenoch must pull back from the brink before she destroys the Tories telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Three leading British actors bravely sound the tocsin about Paramount’s leveraged multibillion takeover of Warner. The UK does not need nor should it be supine over this dangerous concentration of media power. Lisa Nandy must act. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

No she’s not! On climate change denial alone she reveals herself as playing to a gallery of rogues and self-serving charlatans that you have now joined - hopefully not for long! Maureen Lipman: Badenoch is amazing telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron and many Tories understood that climate change is real. ‘ Heatdomes’ over the US and Europe: the threat to Bordeaux. A brave article that Kemi will hate. Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/2…

Michael, we know you have to join the Burnham-can-only-fail crowd ( a crowd whose own ideas have hardly succeeded) after only a week. But Burnham’s spending commitments this week are no more than rounding errors as you know. Either keep you peace or try something cleverer,

A Saturday night treat…

Burnham’s first week should be studied for years to come as a comms/policy masterclass.

And now Janan Ganesh, who I admire, joins the army of right wing columnists keen to show their insight, independence and virility that two days in Burnham can only fail. A depressing commentary on our media. Burnham can be the failure that Britain needs giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

The case for defence bonds is not because they include the word defence they stop being debt. The case, reinforced with an inheritance tax exemption, is that they create a new category of British buyer in an oversaturated UK debt market dominated by foreign buyers. They will come