A woman walks past an ad for HS2 by the Curzon Street station in Birmingham.
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With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
Bright ideas for British business.
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A long-term view on building up British business is key to showing the UK is ‘open for business’.
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt outside 11 Downing Street in London before presenting the latest government budget to Parliament.
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March 15, 2023
Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Alan Shipman , The Open University ; Andrew Burlinson , University of East Anglia ; Catherine Waddams , University of East Anglia ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Gavin Midgley , University of Surrey ; Jim Watson , UCL ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Karl Matikonis , Queen's University Belfast , and Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University
Childcare, pensions and support for energy bills are among the main budget plans for the UK government.
Head down, taxes up.
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November 17, 2022
Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Adi Imsirovic , University of Surrey ; Cam Donaldson , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Gavin Midgley , University of Surrey ; Hilary Ingham , Lancaster University ; Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete , University of Cambridge ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Peter Bloom , University of Essex ; Shampa Roy-Mukherjee , University of East London ; Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University ; Supriya Kapoor , Trinity College Dublin , and Tolu Olarewaju , Keele University
Our panel of academics responds to the UK government’s latest economic plans.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt.
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UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s emergency budget announcement has calmed the market initially but experts see continued challenges.
Hey, big spender.
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September 23, 2022
Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Andrew Burlinson , University of East Anglia ; Catherine Waddams , University of East Anglia ; Donald Hirsch , Loughborough University ; Jean-Philippe Serbera , Sheffield Hallam University ; Jim Watson , UCL ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University , and Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University
How the government plans to address the energy crisis and economic growth, among other key issues.
A spring in his step?
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March 23, 2022
Keith Baker , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Cam Donaldson , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi , York St John University ; Gavin Midgley , University of Southampton ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Karl Schmedders , International Institute for Management Development (IMD) ; Peter Bloom , University of Essex ; Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Renaud Foucart , Lancaster University ; Sarah Schiffling , Liverpool John Moores University ; Slawomir Raszewski , University of East London ; Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University ; Victoria Honeyman , University of Leeds , and W David McCausland , University of Aberdeen
The government knows 2022 is going to be tough for voters.
Allotments were popular in the 1970s and are now busy again.
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Allotments and repairing old clothes are just aspects of 1970s life that are making a comeback.
What’s in the box?
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October 27, 2021
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi , York St John University ; Alexander Tziamalis , Sheffield Hallam University ; Cam Donaldson , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Edward Thomas Jones , Bangor University ; Gabriella Legrenzi , Keele University ; Gavin Midgley , University of Southampton ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karl Schmedders , International Institute for Management Development (IMD) ; Michael Jacobs , University of Sheffield ; Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath , and Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University
Sunak talked about a new age of optimism, but it doesn’t feel like that for many people.
Morrisons controls 10% of UK supermarket shopping.
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Reassurances around the takeover of UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain come with a strong sense of deja vu.
Some birds never make it off the ground.
Masivaan
Everyone who starts a business dreams of success. After all, unless they believe in their idea or product why would they expect others to want it? All too frequently the biggest problem for these entrepreneurs…
