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🟢 Is an industrial strategy alone enough to deliver long term energy security? An industrial strategy is vital to boosting the domestic supply chain, which is a huge part of guaranteeing our energy security says @praneshippr.bsky.social at the DESNZ Committee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_adE...

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⏰ RECRUITING AN ECONOMIST! Do you want to join the UK's leading progressive think tank in the heart of Westminster? We are hiring for an economist to join the team and help shape our upcoming work. www.ippr.org/jobs/economi...

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📢 Come and join the IPPR Economy & Environment Team at an exciting time for the organisation 💫 We are recruiting a new Economist/Research Fellow to work on economic policies to boost and share the proceeds of growth 📩 Info on how to apply here: www.ippr.org/jobs/economi...

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🧱 | NEW REPORT: Instead of stripping back planning regulations to 'get Britain building,' this new report from @msingerhobbs.bsky.social argues we need a stronger, better resourced, planning system.

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I’m getting really fed up of these abstract attacks on ‘regulation’ - why is Andy Haldane advocating the Doge approach for UK - blanket halving the number of regulators and their budgets? on.ft.com/416pqlx 1/2

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🤖 | NEW REPORT: Work and home life is being radically transformed by AI - with 2 out of 3 desk jobs exposed + a million people in the UK now having AI companions - but is our politics keeping pace? This report from @carsjung.bsky.social sets out a new approach.

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Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.

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When we looked at the total cost of ownership of heat pumps in the UK I was surprised by this finding: Heat pumps with only slightly above average efficiency already today reach cost parity with gas boilers after the government grant. More here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

📢Some Friday reading - I wrote for LabourList on how Reeves' growth speech this week needs to be just the start - businesses across the country need investment, stability, and help to grab green growth opportunities if the UK is going to thrive 🇬🇧 labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...

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Scotland’s investment in subsea cable manufacturing is a clear example of green, growth-enhancing industrial policy in action. This is the route to a competitive, sustainable and prosperous economy built for the future www.ft.com/content/8ce0...

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🚗 | NEW REPORT: Electric vehicles are not a culture war issue - most voters are instinctively positive towards them. In this report with @persuasionuk.bsky.social we polled the public to get their views and highlight policies to maximise the benefits of EVs. www.ippr.org/articles/pub...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Smart & clearsighted analysis as ever from @georgedibb.bsky.social - I can only hope the Treasury team are reading!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

My analysis of Reeves speech... GDP growth only matters if people feel the benefits. Labour must break with failed growth models that concentrated prosperity in a few places. Success depends on investment, stability, and green growth reaching every part of Britain. labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I stopped using X when I opened the app one day and the first post the algorithm chose for me was a compilation video of people being randomly punched in the face

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t get behind the framing here - growth in UK can’t be neatly categorised into SE fast, other regions slow. It’s less tidy. This also ignores how we increase the overall productive capacity in our economy which is to build up our regions. HMT response seems to get that! on.ft.com/3E9nQWO

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Hm, I can see myself having to say pretty often that enforcing competition so markets work in the interests of customers means there is less need for regulation of other kinds.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

🚨 Withdrawing from the #ParisAgreement is a grave mistake that disavows America’s leadership on the most urgent global challenge of our time. This reckless action weakens alliances, cedes ground to rivals, and jeopardizes America’s future. Read more www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really important point from Ashwin Businesses can literally calculate the effects of the budget tax measures on their bottom line, but the big upsides of increased public investment are yet to come through, but businesses will feel those in time

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Visiting Japan last year a massive difference with the UK was the huge number of free, clean, accessible public toilets London is a great city to explore on foot and has so many nice green spaces that are rendered unusable for many because it's a desert of public toilets

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After all that noise: no fines to be issued for missing EV targets @transenvuk.bsky.social: “… the government must maintain ZEV mandate ambition to continue to drive down costs for consumers, and focus on delivering a robust industrial strategy for the sector to support UK automotive manufacturing”

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Location of your family's first skyscraper in the replies pls 🙏 “My family built their first ever skyscraper in Dubai in the mid-70s so we have known the place for a long time.” he said. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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An interesting sidebar from The Guardian's profile of Reeves' economic advisor, John Van Reenen I don't know a single person, across any sector, who's been offered any substantive degree of training before taking on management roles www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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We should be very cautious about taking seriously scaremongering data on "an exodus of millionaires" from wealth advisors, i.e. people who will profit significantly from heightened expectations of an exodus of millionaires www.thetimes.com/article/c63f...

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This news shows why the government's industrial strategy, National Wealth Fund and GB Energy are needed to foster investment projects Firms have an almost record amount of spare cash to spend on boosting share prices whilst investments plumb new lows www.ft.com/content/3056...

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🌍 | NEW REPORT: In the face of Brexit barriers, potential Trump tariffs, and global economic turbulence, the government is developing a new trade strategy. In this paper we set out a blueprint to rebuild, protect, and grow the UK's exports.

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Today's monthly GDP figures show a 0.1% increase in real GDP in November - the first positive reading in 3 months. It's encouraging but far from outstanding, and very clear that interest rates have become a drag on growth. The Bank of England must cut rates ASAP

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We're delighted to welcome Harry Quilter-Pinner (@harryqp.bsky.social) as our new executive director, following a competitive recruitment process sparked by the departure of Carys Roberts, who joined the Downing Street Policy Unit.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Inflation down in December, with Core CPI down 0.3% The UK economy continues on track for disinflation. Inflation is not an immediate cause for concern for the economy, but weaker-than-expected growth is To boost growth, investment and prosperity, interest rates must come down

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'Technology has the power to create a better society, but it’s unlikely to happen if AI is unleashed upon us. Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' This seems relevant again www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its competition law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.

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The UK's big problem isn't bond market toddler tantrums, it's the growing risk of medium-term 'stagflation' - low growth, high inflation. (Incidentally that's also what's making the toddlers irritable in the first place.) 1/

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