Please tell me his nickname is Colline

The overlooked part of centralisation is that is a massive gamble. Might work, might not. National politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad.

The pie was excellent this evening. Great service from the onboard team (1A45).

There's someone sat behind me on the train speaking Portuguese y lo siento, mis amig@s, pero it's just Spanish but sexier.

Wait until you hear how they pronounce Reims.

Tickets now available for our next GM Analysts Meet-up (20 May - 09:30 till 16:00) and it’s free to attend for anyone working in or with public sector organisations across Greater Manchester.

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Me too!

Outrageous.

Every data project I've ever worked on where my opening thought was 'no-one's done this before, but how hard can it be?'

If you're an economist who would like to influence government policy, this post is really worth reading.

A nice line in here, which I may have to steal: 'Economic models bring rigour to policy. Unfortunately, they also bring mortis.'

Our first 'On Tour' event was last week. All available presentations and talks on our website.

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This is really helpful resource for anyone trying to navigate the patchwork of English devo: gov.uk/government/pub…

We now have 100,000 readers on our mailing lists 🎉🎉, 7,000 of whom are paying subs.

Very proud of my little team, who have built up that audience from scratch in under four years by doing incredibly interesting, original, high-effort journalism. Which people seem to like!

We’re the North East Combined Authority and today was a big day for us. Law has been passed in Parliament that means we can set ourselves up and deliver on the North East devolution deal. In May the public get to elect a mayor to lead us.

Interestingly long waiting lists is not a uniquely British problem.

On my first day in office after the last Mayoral election, I made a video of my journey from Middleton to MediaCity to highlight the problems with public transport outside London.

Today I retraced my steps - and it was very different. 👇🏻

Crikey. This really is very good. AI through a solid economics lens. A must read.

Quite the quote.

Henri Murison “I’m all for spending the money that the Govt has reallocated, but the purpose of that isn’t to win votes - it’s to raise Northern #productivity . Think about the economics of #transport policy rather than obsess over the end itself.”

#HS2 #NTS2024