Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers must

This piece is one of two works in The Long Season series. The dry land represents a season of waiting, uncertainty, and endurance. A period when everything can feel still and lifeless. Yet, the rain begins

The Strait of Hormuz, the most important waterway in the Middle East, is once again in the spotlight. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bakher Ghalib said that if Iran cannot sell oil, no one else in