About PolicyNews
PolicyNews collects what UK government departments, Parliament, the statistical agencies and the major policy institutes publish, and turns it into one readable, filterable stream.
How it works
- Collect. Every source publishes an RSS or Atom feed. We read those feeds directly rather than scraping pages, so we get the publisher's own title, link and blurb.
- Summarise. A language model writes a short, factual summary of each item from its title and the publisher's blurb, tags it with up to three topics from a fixed list, and rates how much a policy professional would want to see it.
- Rank. The default view blends that rating with recency, so a significant report from yesterday outranks a routine notice from this morning. Switch to Newest first for a pure chronological feed.
What the score means
The number on each item is an editorial interest score from 0 to 100. It reflects substance, not the prestige of the publisher: a routine procedural notice from a major department scores low, a rigorous finding from a small institute scores high. It is a machine judgement and it will sometimes be wrong — treat it as a skim aid, not a verdict.
Honest limitations
- Summaries are generated automatically and are not checked by a human. Always read the original before citing anything.
- Every headline links straight to the publisher. We reproduce only a short summary and never the full text.
- Coverage is limited to organisations that publish a machine-readable feed and allow automated readers. A few notable institutes block us at their edge; they are listed on the sources page.
- Publication dates come from the feed. A handful of publishers date items loosely, so ordering can be approximate.
Using the data
There is a JSON endpoint at /api/articles and an RSS feed at /feed.xml. Both accept the same q, kind, topic, source, days, sort and limit parameters as the site.
Currently tracking 483 articles from 25 live sources. Last updated 1h ago.