Ginny Smith meets a Labour maverick who has won widespread support for a fairer voting system – only to face...

Empires have always suppressed native languages to control the people of occupied countries – and this is now happening in...

What better way to celebrate cats across the world than by publishing Christopher Smart’s glorious poem to his own feline?

Random seaside sculptures created from driftwood have turned a Sussex street artist, nature lover and green campaigner into a local...

The rampion, a modest blue flower that packs a punch was chosen to represent Sussex Bylines

After 75 years, is the NHS on Life-Support? Personal experiences arguing we must save it

The Sussex Weald was once a mighty oak forest and site of the iron industry. Ginny Smith explores it

Ginny Smith pays tribute to Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, after the announcement that she's stepping down at...

It was not until a visit to Ireland in search of a match for a sport-horse mare that the author’s...

Asylum-seeking children are disappearing from hotels and nobody seems to know where they’ve gone. Ginny Smith investigates

What a year! Not great by any means: let's hope 2023 is better

Ginny Smith recollects listening to the world around her in the silence of lockdown and wonders if there is such...

Schools, and Britain's anti-learning culture, are failing our children. And the Tories haven't helped

Lewes Bonfire night dates back to the 17th century. Ginny Smith describes some of the traditions kept alive by the...

Ginny Smith analyses the phenomenon of The Queue of people lining up for hours to see the late Queen lying...

Indefensible releases of sewage with harmful bacteria and other pollutants into this environment is unacceptable in the 21st Century

In the latest of our articles on the pollution of our rivers and beaches, Ginny Smith blames the failed policy...

Ginny Smith recalls student life at Sussex University in the '60s

The Banks v Cadwalladr defamation case was hailed a victory for public interest journalism but there have been costs to...

Ginny Smith reports on the pre-Europe day concert and rally on 8 May, describing mixed emotions of joy, hope and...

Why and how do other countries keep their environments cleaner than the UK? Political change is crucial, says Ginny Smith

Ginny Smith examines the reach and influence of Russian money and Putin-connected Russian oligarchs in Britain

The hawthorn tree carries an often forgotten weight of folklore, myth, history and literature

After a damning report by MPs on polluted waterways – still no effective action from government

Revealed! The “press, peer and potholes”: a scandal that was – literally – too good to be true

Infilling old railway bridges with concrete has been described as vandalism. Is it, and how are campaigners reacting?

Is the government's action on sewage window dressing... like a new Southern Water call for 'pollution watchers'?

More stunning pictures to enjoy from the lens of young photographer Ben Muir

Film-maker and peer Lord Puttnam on why he has quit the House of Lords and his fears for the future...

New threats to our water systems due to Brexit were foreseen by the government's own Operation Yellowhammer plans in the...