Danny Dorling works in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. In 2020 he published “Slowdown: The End of the…
There has been much talk recently about the ‘unacceptable’ rates of economic inactivity among UK workers. ‘A country of shirkers’ seems to risk becoming the…
Elections can sometimes make us crazy, even when they’re going on elsewhere – especially, perhaps, when they take place in the USA, where the results…
Will the upcoming budget drive confidence? Growth, growth, growth. That is the mantra emanating from the new government. Layered on to the narrative that all…
The last several days have been taken up with scenes of widespread rioting in several parts of the UK. Unleashed following brutal knife attacks on…
Our chart of the month shows export performance of the major European economies over the last 10 years. What does it show? Of course, as…
Tackling crime rates is not straightforward. In the UK, we have seen repeated media reports about increasing crime rates, particularly knife crime. Our chart this…
Productivity is notoriously hard to measure meaningfully. There are various metrics to use at firm level and at national level. In our chart of the…
I had the pleasure of attending Anthropy 23 at the Eden Project recently, a gathering of some 1,800 delegates from public, private and third sector…
Our chart for this month looks at Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2022 and comes from Navigating Through Turbulence, the EY UK Attractiveness Survey. As…