Providing small businesses with technology and training will accelerate our recovery from Coronavirus.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
We should double down on Product Development Partnerships, which are alive and well in the field of public health.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.
The third piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
The lesson of the last year is poorer communities are much more vulnerable to the next virus or health emergency.
With a few well-judged interventions, the Government can jump-start the sustainable aviation fuels sector and revitalise our industrial heartlands too.
Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.
This renaissance could place the UK at the vanguard of the most industries and technologies over the coming decades.
I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.
Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.
It’s hard to think that the right future is to be a less research-intensive country than the rest of the world, and so I hope our commitment will endure.