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Britain's Greatest Lab Can't Build a Lab

The Oxford-Cambridge corridor generates £143 billion a year. It could generate three times that. The planning system won't let it. Britain developed the vaccine that saved the world in this corridor. It can't build the homes for the people who made it.

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Britain's Eight Numbers

Eight numbers that tell you what has actually happened to Britain — and what it's costing every one of us. £2.87tn debt. £111bn interest. 14 years of flat wages. 99.8% of projects over budget.

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Britain's problem isn't a shortage of ideas. It's a broken operating system.

Starting this week: a ten-part series on how Britain lost the ability to turn good decisions into real outcomes — and what it would take to get it back.

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Britain Has Become Too Lawyerly for an Age That Rewards Builders

The problem isn't that Britain lacks good ideas. It's that we've built a system where almost everyone has a route to object and almost nobody has enough authority to finish.

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Britain doesn't need another think tank. It needs someone to make the ones we have actually matter.

The policy graveyard isn't full of bad ideas. It's full of good ones that nobody pushed hard enough, long enough, to see through. That's the gap worth filling.

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