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    A defence-led growth strategy comes with compromises

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    Lessons from Manchester for Labour’s new town agenda

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    JLR cyber attacks highlight challenges facing UK car industry

    Also in this week’s newsletter: a warning for the rest of British industry from the National Cyber Security Centre

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  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
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  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
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    The blockages to attracting highly skilled workers to the UK

    Also in this week’s newsletter, gilt investors take fright at Andy Burnham’s comments

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    Data breach deepens Northern Ireland’s funding crisis

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  • Thursday, 11 September, 2025
    Education
    The funding crisis reshaping UK universities

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the two-tier system for treating ADHD

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  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
    UK transport
    British railways face an uncertain future under state ownership

    Plus, how the fuel cap is distorting transport costs

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  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    UK business
    The knotty problem of business rates

    Also in this week’s newsletter, what recruiters are telling us about the labour market

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  • Thursday, 21 August, 2025
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    The challenge of restoring credibility to the nation’s statistics

    Definitions of what constitutes ‘infrastructure’ always skew physical but information is vital to a modern economy

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  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    Technology regulation
    Inside Apple’s legal black box

    The tech company will have to rely on ‘assumed’ rather than actual facts to contest the UK’s encryption order

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  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    UK fishing
    UK fishing fleet stares into a bleak future

    An industry that welcomed Brexit feels betrayed

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  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
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    A booming university and revived defence industry puts Plymouth back on the map

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the South West’s changing labour force

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  • Thursday, 24 July, 2025
    UK public policy
    Whitehall infighting hinders search for growth

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the EU remains the UK’s most important export market despite Brexit

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  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
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    Retailers brace for new recycling scheme

    Producers will be forced to cover more of the costs for disposing of rubbish

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    UK Government
    Why business leaders don’t make good ministers

    Government services face different challenges to the private sector

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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    On top of extreme weather, farmers are starved of clear policy direction

    Plus, Keir Starmer launches NHS reform programme

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  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
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    Science’s pushmi-pullyu dilemma

    Spending on defence and technology welcomed but aid cuts hurt health research

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  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
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    The value for money crisis at UK universities

    Also in this week’s newsletter, Labour’s plan to revive bus services

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  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
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    Reeves’ spending plans meet reality of ageing population

    Also in this week’s newsletter, funding for new houses is not what it seems

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  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
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    Also in this week’s newsletter, growing fears of steel imports ‘flooding’ the country

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
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    Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils

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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
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    UK’s creative economy desperately needs a champion

    Ministers should support flourishing industries through AI shifts, not let tech companies continue to suck up value

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  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
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    The ambiguity of the UK’s immigration plans

    Also in this week’s newsletter, changes to ONS’s employment survey yield results

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  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
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    How John Swinney revived the SNP in Scotland

    Also in this week’s newsletter, Budget restores spending on affordable housing

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