Lucy McCormick

Jan 3, 2025 | theguardian.com | Lucy McCormick

If the pet food industry were a country, it would rank as the world’s 60th biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. In countries such as the US, researchers estimate that pet food accounts for about a quarter of total meat consumption. And as the number of pets grows, the environmental impact looks set to increase. But the British government may have unlocked a solution. This year, the UK became the only country in Europe to approve the use of lab-grown meat in pet food.

Nov 6, 2024 | theguardian.com | Will Craft |Alex Clark |Andrew Witherspoon |Ashley Kirk |Lucy McCormick |Philip McMahon

Donald Trump has won the majority of electoral college votes to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election. Despite polling gains for the Democrats after Biden’s exit from the race in July, Harris failed to maintain a lead and the election was neck-and-neck in the final weeks of the campaign. As of 9.10 ET (14.10 GMT) on Wednesday, more than 2,800 of nearly 3,200 counties had returned more than 90% of their votes.

Aug 9, 2024 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Lucy McCormick

A staggering 22% of people in the UK live in relative poverty, a 50% increase since the 1970s. Worse, this poverty is deepening – 3.4m households cannot afford to feed themselves, and 7,000 people die every winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes. In the sixth largest economy in the world, something is terribly broken. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Across Europe, an idea has been gathering momentum: that all citizens should receive a basic income, paid for by the state.

Jul 16, 2024 | lucymccormick.substack.com | Lucy McCormick

(Image credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / Getty Images)It’s over. It’s done. The Conservative party has gasped its last. And how fitting for its final death rattle to be narrated live on Channel 4 by bestselling romance novelist Nadine Dorries, a woman so committed to Method that she selflessly rendered it through the medium of her own nervous breakdown.

Mar 19, 2024 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Lucy McCormick

In 21st-century Britain, to describe democracy as the optimal system for national government has become almost a truism. A progressive country must surely be ruled by the people, for the people. Yet when the news broke of Labour Party plans to give British citizens a greater voice in the governance of their country – through the implementation of citizens’ assemblies – storm clouds quickly gathered.