A question I am frequently asked is why did I return to work at the Environment Agency, given the risks? The answer is simply that I considered it my public duty. The public had paid me, and trusted me, to protect them and the environment for many years, and I know a lot of frontline officers who will agree that that sense of responsibility doesn’t leave you easily. Environment Agency current leadership team - the people paid to run the regulator with high standards of integr

This is a guest blog, written by Robert Forrester, a former Environment Agency employee who became a whistleblower, played in Channel 4's Dirty Business by Chanel Cresswell, to hide his identity. During production of the factual drama, Rob decided to go public with his identity and remarkable disclosures, and continues to campaign for honesty and integrity to prevail. Robert Forrester - photo extract from The Times Turning on the light. My first meeting with Laura McCutcheo

The Government has responded to our petition for a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership, and the reply is not pretty. Even worse, it's not true. We smashed past the 10K threshold to require a response on the same day that Feargal Sharkey led the launch publicity on Channel 4. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640 A lot of signing and sharing came after many of you reponded to the video we took of Feargal at the excellent SoS Whitstable Beach