With the right policies to unlock investment, Drax can help make Britain a world-leader in this next-generation technology.
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces an uphill battle against entrenched attitudes in almost every relevant department.
David Skelton catalogues the snobbish abuse heaped by progressive intellectuals on workers in neglected towns.
There is a balance to strike between the statism of the post-War era and the full-blooded free market ideology of the 1980s.
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
It contributes a tidy £6.75 billion in GVA to the national economy each year as a net contributor to Treasury coffers.
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
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.
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.
A careful reading of Hayek and Adam Smith will confirm that neither was invariably opposed to state action.