Here’s a fact that will warm the heart of any Anglophile: Cambridge has more Nobel prizes than the whole of France put together. It’s a remarkable fact given Cambridge is such a small place – a population of just 150,000, with city status conferred only 75 years ago. So why do I mention this? Because […]
Earlier this week, Housing Secretary Steve Reed effectively handed in his resignation. He told BBC One’s ‘Panorama’ that his job should ‘be on the line’ if he failed to meet Labour’s target to build 1.5 million homes by the end of the parliament. Even if it is far shy of the estimated 6.5m homes we’d […]
Britain is in a growth emergency – and it’s time we faced up to it. Energy costs are skyrocketing, infrastructure building moves at the pace of rush-hour traffic and our productivity lags so far behind the likes of France and the US that we’re practically begging Mississippi not to overtake us – oh wait, they […]
