Moving away from animal research is both effective and popular – here are eight steps in the right direction the Government should take.
If Sunak and Truss are remotely serious about either improving Britain’s long-term growth rate or competing with China, they must make our country a science superpower.
His Mais lecture revealed more about what he’d be like as Chancellor during the normal times that once again are denied us.
Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.
We can still be another Israel or South Korea, if we decide a strategy and stick to it.
What if we had given workers on furlough the chance to do R&D for their companies instead of being paid to simply not work at all by the Government?
The TIGGR document on regulation published today focuses on playing to our strengths in the highest growing sectors of tomorrow.
Currently the UK spends around 1.7 per cent of its GDP on R&D. Yet the US and China are heading towards three per cent GDP, and others even more.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
It has the freedom to make big bets on new firms and new technology, and can help regulators develop sensible rules for this vital sector.
The UK and governments across the west have started to act. But we’re still just starting to figure out how to respond.
Spending amounts to an extra £24 billion over four years from today’s levels, helping to equip our Armed Forces.
Our new agency, with radical freedom to fund blue-sky innovation, is overdue. But its funding is still less than one per cent of UK R&D funding.
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.
Not even the best reforming Minister I’ve ever seen can smooth out disagreements between the Treasury and Downing Street.