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Levelling up: against just "cities and skills"
Today's Industrial Strategy Green Paper repeats a very questionable piece of Westminster Received Wisdom
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We should have an enquiry into the Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai case
Britain's dysfunctional state prefers to pass "Martyn's Law", rather than fixing glaring problems which are putting us at risk
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New data on the driving tests crisis
In many parts of the country you can't get a driving test. New data from my PQ shows DFT *don't* have this crisis under control.
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The new housing targets
Why doesn't the new formula do what the government claims it does?
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Remaking the case for levelling up
The new government has a weird lack of interest in policy to improve economic performance in poorer areas
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British energy policy part 2: accelerating towards deindustrialisation and disaster
Ed Miliband's plans for a zero carbon grid by 2030 will make things radically worse
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British energy policy part 1: unilateral economic disarmament
Almost everything about Britain's energy policy is wrong
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September 2024

Two kinds of NHS reform
The Darzi report ends on a cliffhanger, and never quite tells us what the government's vision for NHS reform is
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The great rail fares mystery
How much should a train ticket cost? On Britain's railways there's little consistency to how this question is answered.
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The sand in his pockets
My childhood and their childhood
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My speech in today's debate on illegal immigration
I secured a Parliamentary debate today on illegal immigration, and I and used it to ask some questions about where the government is going on this…
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Estimates of Winter Fuel Payment losses for old and new constituencies
The numbers the government doesn't want to publish
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