| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.06.2025 | The Tightrope of Fiscal Responsibility: Balancing Cuts and Growth in the UK | In the heart of the UK’s fiscal landscape, a storm brews. The government is grappling with a dual challenge: cutting costs while fueling growth. The latest reports from think tanks and fiscal institutions reveal a complex web of proposed cu... |
| 01.06.2025 | Spending review: Government poised to boost NHS and defence sector | The government’s spending review is likely to focus on the UK’s health and defence sectors, a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests.
The spending review, which will be published on 11 June, will allocate departmental f... |
| 30.05.2025 | Civil service cull can save £5bn a year | Civil service cull can save £5bn a year, Policy Exchange says
Cutting 80,000 civil service jobs could save the Treasury as much as £5bn pounds a year, a new report has found, as the government seeks to rein in spending in a bid to stick to ... |
| 13.05.2025 | Immigration reforms don’t go far enough | The UK government’s immigration reforms take a step toward prioritising high-skilled migrants but fall short in scale, clarity, and immediate impact, says Iain Mansfield
The government’s proposals to prioritise highly skilled immigration ar... |
| 10.05.2025 | A New Chapter in UK-US Trade: Starmer's Historic Deal | In a world where trade agreements often feel like mirages, the recent deal between the UK and the US stands out like a lighthouse in a storm. Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, has secured a significant agreement with the US, marking a pi... |
| 09.05.2025 | Is the UK-US trade deal a win for Starmer? | In what has been hailed by trade experts as “the biggest week for UK trade since Brexit,” the UK has struck the long-awaited trade deal with the US, just over a month after – so-called ‘Liberation Day’ – tariffs were announced.
This is the ... |
| 06.05.2025 | Government signs landmark billion-pound trade deal with India | Billions of pounds in extra trade could soon be exchanged between India and the UK after the two nations signed a landmark free trade agreement, ending years of protracted negotiations.
The deal, which the UK government said was the most “e... |
| 11.04.2025 | Can AI do it better? Why Starmer is right to reimagine the civil service | What proportion of the civil service’s workload could AI handle today? What about in 10 years? Starmer could revolutionise Whitehall if he’s brave enough, writes Ed de Minckwitz
The recent announcement of a 15 per cent reduction in civil se... |
| 20.03.2025 | Rethinking Brexit: A New Lens on Trade Dynamics | The Brexit debate has lingered like a stubborn fog. It clouds conversations, stirs emotions, and shapes policies. Yet, recent insights suggest it might be time to clear the air. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has long been the o... |
| 20.03.2025 | Do we need to rethink Brexit’s impact on UK-EU trade? | With the weekend approaching, allow me to furnish you with a classic conversation starter for the pub or a dinner party; have you heard that the OBR might have overstated the impact of Brexit on the UK’s trade with the EU? In my experience ... |
| 19.03.2025 | Jeremy Hunt: OBR ‘overly exaggerated’ Brexit impact | Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has criticised the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) for making “overly exaggerated” claims about Brexit’s impact on the economy.
The OBR released a series of gloomy predictions in recent years claiming tha... |
| 08.03.2024 | UK Science Body Chief Calls for 'Creative Disagreement' in Science-Politics Discourse | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 08 March 2024, 09:03 pm
Ottoline Leyser, the head of the UK government science body, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has urged for a more constructive public discourse, emphasizing the need for "creative disag... |
| 05.03.2023 | Artist's discovery of an 'execution wall' sheds light on the brutal history of Nazi concentration camps on British soil | Lager Sylt 2023 German gunpowder ink on paper. Piers Secunda
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Forensic evidence from a bullet-damaged wall sheds light on the Nazi occupation of a British island.
During World War II, thousands of prisoners were sent to labor and ... |
| 23.01.2023 | The Nord Stream pipeline attack shows what Russia can do, Western officials say, even if they can't prove Russia did it | Gas leaking from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea on September 27. Swedish Coast Guard via Getty Images
After months of investigation, Western officials can't prove Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
While they can't name... |
| 12.01.2023 | On Protecting the Undersea Cable System | Cables the size of a garden hose crisscross the oceans. Unlike your hose at home, these cables require all the protection afforded to other pieces of critical infrastructure, like the power grid. And, assuming you don’t have a serious feud ... |
| 14.02.2022 | A Failure To Build Is Threatening The U.K.’s European Startup Crown | The high cost of housing is preventing British founders from starting and scaling their companies according to a new report. Endorsed by 60 business leaders, including Entrepreneur First’s Matt Clifford MBE, Yo Company’s Simon Woodroffe OBE... |
| 12.11.2021 | GreenTech Firms Are Leading The Way In Narrowing The Equity Funding Gap—But There’s Still A Long Way To Go | The Launch of Inspiring Innovation on the Terrace of the House of Lords The Entrepreneurs Network |
| 06.08.2021 | Private equity needs to start speaking up for itself – it could be the key to ‘levelling up’ | Private equity’s reputation is once again in the spotlight. With the supermarket Morrisons in the industry’s crosshairs, the public memory is reminded of previous scandals involving other household names. |
| 12.04.2021 | LIBERTY GLOBAL PLC
Liberty Global : Charge launches national Electric Vehicle infrastructure rollout in UK Charge, the joint venture created by Global and Zouk Capital to rollout on-street electric v... | Liberty Charge, the joint venture created by Liberty Global and Zouk Capital to rollout on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK, has today announced the successful completion of its first UK installation in the London boro... |
| 06.03.2021 | Finance need an overhaul to price in climate change risk and push green agenda forward | Why did the credit and wider financial system only take off in the last 400 years? Despite money and lending being around for millennia, financial services only truly got going alongside the Enlightenment. |
| 05.06.2020 | A pro-growth vision for the UK economy | The UK needs a pro-growth economic policy. |
| 06.05.2018 | Gray Media Under the Black and White Banner | Editor’s Note: Although Internet comments have made great strides in trying to combat extremist content online, they have a long way to go. In particular, much of what jihadists use for propaganda is non-violent or otherwise doesn't neatly ... |
| 05.03.2018 | Evaluating the Russian Threat to Undersea Cables | Is vital internet infrastructure at risk from new Russian naval capabilities? NATO’s military leadership has warned in recent months that the Russian navy is aggressively probing undersea communications cable networks. These cables form a g... |
| 21.01.2018 | Marginalizing Violent Extremism Online | Editor’s Note: The call to take down terrorist-linked content on the Internet is both sensible and limited in its effectiveness. Terrorists use many different aspects of the Internet for many different purposes, and taking down propaganda a... |
| 26.12.2017 | British Military Chief Warns Russia Could Cut NATO's Internet Connections, As Traffic For World's Top Sites Is Mysteriously Routed Via…Russia | We recently wrote about an interesting comment from Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary that Russia had no intention of cutting itself off from the rest of the Internet. But there’s another side to the disconnection story, as this Guardian new... |
| 10.03.2017 | Good housekeeping needed in education, says former Downing Street adviser | Good housekeeping needed in education, says former Downing Street adviser
10-03-2017
The education system in England has never been more fragmented or more difficult to manage and explain, a former UK government adviser has told a seminar.
... |
| 18.01.2017 | Harmonizing Human Rights Obligations with Security Interests | After Anders Breivik was convicted of slaughtering dozens of children at a summer camp, he was confined to a three-room complex in a Norway prison where he had the ability to play video games, watch television, and exercise. Breivik challen... |
| 20.09.2016 | Time is running out to enter £200K competition for engineering biology | Time is running out to enter £200K competition for engineering biology
20-09-2016
The October deadline looms for Bio-start, an annual competition designed to bolster UK companies aiming to solve significant global problems through synthetic... |
| 21.04.2015 | Barking up the Wrong Tree: How Not to Save the British Armed Forces from Legal Defeat | Judicial imperialism is defeating the British armed forces. At least this is what the authors of a report recently published by the Policy Exchange---an influential British think tank---claim. Provocatively entitled Clearing the Fog of Law:... |
| 31.03.2015 | Judicialization of Warfare in the U.K. | A British think tank called Policy Exchange has released a very interesting report on judicialization of British warfare. Entitled "Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving Our Armed Forces from Defeat by Judicial Diktat," the 50-page repo... |
| 17.10.2014 | The Growth of Silicon Cities | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Report Shows the Ways that Cities Around the UK are Becoming Silicon Cities
Britain is benefitting like never before from the growth of technology firms with 1.2 million peop... |
| 06.06.2014 | Policymakers must adopt the 'Tech Manifesto' | “Whoever forms the next government will have no choice but to put technology at the heart of it.” So said British MP Nadhim Zahawi yesterday, and he’s right.
Over the last few years, policymakers have woken up to the fact that the digital e... |
| 27.03.2014 | Reading gets a Crossrail station and a plan for a garden city | |
| 03.03.2014 | Jobseekers who break the rules should sign on daily says new report | |
| 16.03.2012 | Energy nationalism | Energy nationalism
16-03-2012
Nuclear power delivered by a French company and subsidised by UK taxpayers and consumers is not a unique situation. The Scientific Alliance considers the broader context.
UK nuclear plans ‘put energy in French ... |
