More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | George Monbiot
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More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | George Monbiot
A network of public bodies are supposed to safeguard us from flooding. But, like old boys’ clubs, they are bastions of self-interest. Labour’s first stage of government resembles a vast forensic ...Yesterday -
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Budapest and Poland's Wroclaw reinforce their river banks ahead of more flooding
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