SEND, Skills and the System: Time to Rebalance Education
I come from a world of no mobile phones and only three television channels. Childhood boredom was not an emergency; it was an expectation. Silence was not suspicious; it was normal. Today, I look at the pace, pressure and digital saturation surrounding young people and cannot help but wonder how profoundly modern living is shaping […]
Devolution: Real Local Power, or Just a New Way to Divide the Same Pot?
Devolution has become one of the most used—and most misunderstood—words in British economic policy. For business communities, it often sounds like political rebranding: a reshuffle of responsibilities dressed up as transformation. But at its best, devolution is something far more serious. It is about shifting decision-making away from Westminster and into the hands of local […]
Stevenage Shows Why Britain Must Invest in the Science
Britain likes to say it wants to be a science superpower. In one Hertfordshire town, that ambition is no longer a slogan — it is a functioning reality. Stevenage, the first New Town built after the Second World War, has quietly become one of the UK’s most important centres for advanced science, technology and manufacturing. […]
Stevenage Shows – Why Britain Must Invest in the Science That Cures
Britain likes to say it wants to be a science superpower. In one Hertfordshire town, that ambition is no longer a slogan — it is a functioning reality. Stevenage, the first New Town built after the Second World War, has quietly become the UK’s most important centre for cell and gene therapy. Today it hosts […]
The End of a Cornerstone — What Cutting BPR and APR Means for the UK Economy
The decision to start a business does not rest with this specific tax relief, however and what is completely bad for the UK, the decision to CONTINUE a business rest entirely on protecting this concept. A businessperson starts a company with the belief that they may have a project to support them and find during […]
Britain’s Demographic Turning Point Was Built into Its Housing Policy
Britain is approaching a demographic watershed. As the Resolution Foundation warns, deaths are poised to exceed births for the first time outside exceptional years, driven overwhelmingly by collapsing fertility rather than rising mortality. The UK’s total fertility rate has fallen to around 1.4 children per woman—far below the replacement level of 2.1 and less than […]
Inspire to Aspire
A growing number of GCSE pupils are still failing to pass English and Maths despite a slight rise in top grades, continuing a trend since the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results on Thursday 21st of August 2025, which overall showed a slight rise in top grades across England, Wales and […]
Taxing Times
Today there is a genuine concern that our benefits claimant’s volume is increasing considerably, and we believe that there is a range of reasons why this situation exists. There is always a need for taxation to deliver a range of public services and today there are many services delivered by government. The population that works […]
We Can Save the World
As someone who lost both of my wonderful parents to Cancer and consequently has been proud to support the development work in these sciences in Stevenage, I am today mindful of the developments of personalised vaccinations to cure this significant disease. A company based in Hertfordshire has advised me that they now have the technology […]
When Brexit Became Braccess
As Donald Trump unveils what looks like a permanent set of tariffs on imports into the American market, one point is absolutely clear: Britain’s 10pc rate is now the best deal in the world and is 33.3% lower than the rate applied to the EU.