Rachel Fenwick came to political writing after working in environmental planning and public consultation. She studied Geography and Environmental Policy at the University of Exeter, then spent several years preparing consultation summaries, local planning notes, and public information material on transport, housing growth, flood risk, and carbon reduction. Her interest is not only in climate targets, but in the administrative detail behind them: who pays, which bodies deliver, how communities are consulted, and what happens when national commitments meet local pressure. That background gives her writing a practical tone, especially on green policy, regulation, land use, and public accountability. For London Politics, Rachel is useful on stories that sit between environmental policy, Westminster decision-making, public services, and the everyday politics of place.
Planning reform repeatedly returns to the same political problem: Britain needs more homes and infrastructure, but development decisions are made in places where...
Political news is rarely difficult because every report is biased or unreliable. It is difficult because facts, interpretation, selection and emphasis are often...
Britain’s public bodies are led by people who are often appointed rather than elected. Regulators, advisory boards, tribunals and arm’s-length organisations therefore depend...
Energy Security UK remains a fundamental pillar of domestic public policy, shaping how Westminster balances industrial stability, consumer costs, and infrastructure resilience. When...
The G7 matters to British foreign policy because it brings a small group of major advanced economies together for rapid political coordination. It...
Britain’s permanent civil service is expected to serve the elected government of the day regardless of party. That sounds simple, but it creates...
Air quality policy is a central public-health responsibility for national and local government. Poor air quality remains one of the largest environmental risks...
Green Belt policy exists primarily to limit urban sprawl by keeping designated land open. The political difficulty is that the same areas where...
Environmental regulation in Britain is spread across several institutions rather than controlled by a single regulator. National agencies, government departments and local authorities...
The Mayor of London is one of the most powerful directly elected figures in British local government, but the office does not control...
Front gardens may look like a small part of Britain’s climate debate, but collectively they occupy a large area of urban land. As...
August 6, 2026Planning reform repeatedly returns to the same political problem: Britain needs more homes and infrastructure, but development decisions are made in places where...
August 6, 2026Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most severe food-security emergencies. The World Food Programme says millions of people require urgent food assistance, while...
August 5, 2026Political news is rarely difficult because every report is biased or unreliable. It is difficult because facts, interpretation, selection and emphasis are often...
August 5, 2026Britain’s low-carbon transition is creating new work, but not evenly. Offshore wind, grid upgrades, retrofitting, electric transport and industrial decarbonisation all require workers,...
August 4, 2026Arguments about poverty in Britain often sound contradictory because different statistics are answering different questions. A headline may refer to relative low income,...
August 3, 2026