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What Yorkshire looks like after the family tree crosses the Atlantic

by Joshua W J Brown

6 September 2026

From cultural revival to devolution: can Yorkshire follow Finland’s lead?

5 September 2026

Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?

3 September 2026

Beetroot finds its groove

3 September 2026

TRUTH IS POWER – NOMINATE AN ORGANISATION FOR SCRUTINY

ENVIRONMENT

The leaves of two trees have turned brown in high summer due to the effects of drought.

Drought, disease and more besides are killing our trees

Fire blazing on Hob Moor

York wildfire brings North Sea drilling debate close to home

This scene shows the Canal Gardens within Roundhay Park in Leeds.

A breath of fresh air: a brief history of the West Riding’s public parks

8 August 2026 - Updated on 9 August 2026

a big ring of ripples spreading outwards in water

Sewage pollution: are the water companies swindling us?

10 July 2026 - Updated on 13 July 2026

REGULAR FEATURES

a pile of books in front of a log fire

Six of the best: books ‘y’al’ (yet another listicle)

14 December 2025 - Updated on 29 January 2026

Yorkshire White Rose flag

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

12 October 2025 - Updated on 29 January 2026

A green and white Lonsdale bus in Malham

Six of the best: Yorkshire bus rides

27 September 2025 - Updated on 29 January 2026

a view of the sweeping curve of Cayton Bay

Six of the best – reasons to love Yorkshire

6 September 2025 - Updated on 29 January 2026

HISTORY

Sepia photo of Barbara Briggs in her younger years surrounded by animal illustrations from books of a tern, some puffins, a rabbit and a hedgehog

Barbara Briggs: The Wakefield artist who took her talents across the world

HEALTH

Why Palantir’s NHS data tools may not improve our healthcare

14 May 2026 - Updated on 10 June 2026

“Angry and let down”: nurses respond to the annual pay rise

REGIONAL STORIES

York River Ouse riverside waterfront.

York councillors urged to scrutinise Yorkshire Water over sewage pollution

BEVERLEY, UK - DECEMBER 17, 2023: Night time view of ancient minster from elevated point in town centre with flood lights on December 17, 2023 in Beverley, Yorkshire, UK.

The Percys in Yorkshire: power, rebellion, ruin and revival

Cartoon in 1950s style of a woman hunched over a typewriter

Meeting the publishers – self-publishing vs a publishing house

a poster for a classical music event in Roundhay Park

Roundhay Festival 2026

9 July 2026 - Updated on 12 July 2026

BUSINESS

Various cheese with different Europe flags

Travesty of language – the hollowing-out of the most-favoured nation clause

rows of Asian women sit at sewing machines in a factory

Garment workers in Asia still at risk from unsafe practices

Key tribunal ruling leads way for new employment law test

WORLD

Palestine Action protest

The ban on Palestine Action: justice or hypocrisy?

Image of a white sandy beach, with loungers for tourists sunbathing next to an azure sea in Mammee Bay, Jamaica

How James Bond’s Jamaican paradise is out of reach for many locals

exterior of wooden house with green painted walls and a verandah, in the southern American style: it was novelist Ernest Hemingway’s home on Key West

Looking for Hemingway: New York to Key West

12 July 2026 - Updated on 13 July 2026

a nighttime image of oil flares from a refinery on Kharg Island, Iran in the darkness blends into an image of an old person’s hands holding coins

Middle East war threatens stability of UK local government pensions

5 July 2026 - Updated on 10 July 2026

a French flag of vertical bands of blue, white and red lies below a poster for an Iranian rally in Paris. On top of these is the word ‘non’ in big red letters

How Europe’s appeasement enables Iran’s transnational repression

an image of a man’s head, Donald Trump, against a black background and the US flag in red white stripes and white stars on a blue ground

Trump’s war is a mistake he must own in isolation

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13 June 2024 - Updated on 2 July 2024

Photo credit Robert Sharp / englishpenLicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

The Davis Downside Dossier

1 January 2021 - Updated on 26 September 2024

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Why local democracy still matters

28 April 2026 - Updated on 26 May 2026

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Complicit by design

25 April 2026 - Updated on 14 May 2026

Two wooden Adirondack chairs painted with the Canadian flag sit side by side at the end of a dock, facing out over a calm Muskoka lake in Ontario's cottage country. The red maple leaf stands out crisply against the white painted slats, while long shadows stretch across the warm wood planks. Still, mirror-like water reflects the forested shoreline that frames the lake under a soft blue summer sky. Shot from behind in a rear view, the two empty chairs invite the viewer to sit, relax, and take in the peaceful waterfront scene. With no people in the frame, the image captures the quiet beauty of Canadian cottage life, evoking tranquility, escape, and slow summer days at the lake. This patriotic Canada Day image suits travel and tourism, cottage and real estate marketing, lifestyle content, and summer long weekend campaigns. The flag-painted chairs make it especially well suited to Canada Day, July 1st, and national pride themes, as well as broader ideas of relaxation, leisure, and the idyllic Canadian lakeside lifestyle.

What Yorkshire looks like after the family tree crosses the Atlantic

A cabin nestled amidst snow-covered fir trees on a mountain clearing in the winter. Aurora borealis. Northern lights in winter forest. Christmas holiday and winter vacations concept

From cultural revival to devolution: can Yorkshire follow Finland’s lead?

Yorkshire Water: Dirty Business panel. The panel includes Prof Becky Malby, Peter Hammond, Rob Forrester, Cliff Roney, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and was hosted by channel 4 writer and producer Joe Bullman of docu-drama Dirty Business.

Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?

Metabolic Rifts by Ian Angus pictured against a landscape of green countryside and an industrial complex with smoking chimneys.

A review of ‘Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’

Two wooden Adirondack chairs painted with the Canadian flag sit side by side at the end of a dock, facing out over a calm Muskoka lake in Ontario's cottage country. The red maple leaf stands out crisply against the white painted slats, while long shadows stretch across the warm wood planks. Still, mirror-like water reflects the forested shoreline that frames the lake under a soft blue summer sky. Shot from behind in a rear view, the two empty chairs invite the viewer to sit, relax, and take in the peaceful waterfront scene. With no people in the frame, the image captures the quiet beauty of Canadian cottage life, evoking tranquility, escape, and slow summer days at the lake. This patriotic Canada Day image suits travel and tourism, cottage and real estate marketing, lifestyle content, and summer long weekend campaigns. The flag-painted chairs make it especially well suited to Canada Day, July 1st, and national pride themes, as well as broader ideas of relaxation, leisure, and the idyllic Canadian lakeside lifestyle.

What Yorkshire looks like after the family tree crosses the Atlantic

6 September 2026

A cabin nestled amidst snow-covered fir trees on a mountain clearing in the winter. Aurora borealis. Northern lights in winter forest. Christmas holiday and winter vacations concept

From cultural revival to devolution: can Yorkshire follow Finland’s lead?

5 September 2026

Yorkshire Water: Dirty Business panel. The panel includes Prof Becky Malby, Peter Hammond, Rob Forrester, Cliff Roney, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and was hosted by channel 4 writer and producer Joe Bullman of docu-drama Dirty Business.

Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?

3 September 2026

freshly picked beetroot

Beetroot finds its groove

3 September 2026

OPINION

20/07/2026. Keir Starmer gives his farewell speech outside 10 Downing Street

Just because you keep saying it, doesn’t make it true

black and white image of two children walking away from camera down a rural lane, one child has an arm around the shoulder of the second

Whatever happened to empathy?

11 July 2026 - Updated on 13 July 2026

a small child reaches up holding a yellow star, which also forms one of the yellow stars of the European flag

European dreams versus reality

READERS' LETTERS

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Letters to the editor date July-December 2026

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Two wooden Adirondack chairs painted with the Canadian flag sit side by side at the end of a dock, facing out over a calm Muskoka lake in Ontario's cottage country. The red maple leaf stands out crisply against the white painted slats, while long shadows stretch across the warm wood planks. Still, mirror-like water reflects the forested shoreline that frames the lake under a soft blue summer sky. Shot from behind in a rear view, the two empty chairs invite the viewer to sit, relax, and take in the peaceful waterfront scene. With no people in the frame, the image captures the quiet beauty of Canadian cottage life, evoking tranquility, escape, and slow summer days at the lake. This patriotic Canada Day image suits travel and tourism, cottage and real estate marketing, lifestyle content, and summer long weekend campaigns. The flag-painted chairs make it especially well suited to Canada Day, July 1st, and national pride themes, as well as broader ideas of relaxation, leisure, and the idyllic Canadian lakeside lifestyle.

What Yorkshire looks like after the family tree crosses the Atlantic

6 September 2026

A cabin nestled amidst snow-covered fir trees on a mountain clearing in the winter. Aurora borealis. Northern lights in winter forest. Christmas holiday and winter vacations concept

From cultural revival to devolution: can Yorkshire follow Finland’s lead?

5 September 2026

Yorkshire Water: Dirty Business panel. The panel includes Prof Becky Malby, Peter Hammond, Rob Forrester, Cliff Roney, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and was hosted by channel 4 writer and producer Joe Bullman of docu-drama Dirty Business.

Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?

3 September 2026

freshly picked beetroot

Beetroot finds its groove

3 September 2026

Metabolic Rifts by Ian Angus pictured against a landscape of green countryside and an industrial complex with smoking chimneys.

A review of ‘Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’

1 September 2026

British Businessman Holding Large And Small Piggy Bank

Technical is not the same as tangible

York River Ouse riverside waterfront.

York councillors urged to scrutinise Yorkshire Water over sewage pollution

31/07/2026. Sheffield, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits The Meadow Family Centre in Sheffield. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

Beyond childcare: a new vision for early childhood

BEVERLEY, UK - DECEMBER 17, 2023: Night time view of ancient minster from elevated point in town centre with flood lights on December 17, 2023 in Beverley, Yorkshire, UK.

The Percys in Yorkshire: power, rebellion, ruin and revival

Aerial view of a flower carpet in Brussels, similar to the one that will be on display in Bradford

Where nature meets culture: Bradford’s great outdoors becomes the stage

President Donald Trump receives an update from Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the U.S. peace plan for Gaza in the Oval Office, Friday, October 3, 2025 - USA (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

the slow unbecoming of 47

Yorkshire, UK, picture of a map in a world atlas

Burnham’s moment: why England needs more than second-class devolution

An exterior wide shot of the grand, two-storey Victorian Italianate facade of York Art Gallery under a clear sky. The building features arched windows, decorative brickwork, columns, and round ornamental tile details. A modern, minimalist glass entrance pavilion sits at ground level, while the historic stone paved plaza out front contains manicured flower beds and contemporary outdoor seating.

John Flaxman: The York-born artist who inspired Turner, Blake and Wedgwood

Euston Road, London, March 2026. Image shows a tent encampment in front of an office block showing the stark contrast between poverty and affluence

Economic growth: are we measuring what really matters?

Building towards insanity: are we sacrificing food security for housing?

15 August 2026 - Updated on 17 August 2026

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