Britain's productivity "puzzle"

This is a superb essay and I want everyone to read it ukfoundations.co

We recently submitted a scheme for 33 apartments with gf retail in Stockport town centre. Putting back urban grain with references to the historic now demolished station. Stop in Stockport createstreets Architecture & Tradition My Stockport

Let the first person who has never done this cast the first stone.

I live in The Lake District. It gets boring after a while.

Why does it take 3 clicks to delete an unsolicited message on LinkedIn?

Ignore everything before, “and yet, paradoxically, I enjoyed it”

If this doesn’t lead to a super-cluster of high-tech defence startups-ups in Barrow, Ulverston, Kendal and Lancaster we’ll have buggered it all up again.

I can confirm

The consensus in Britain used to be that post-war planning and infrastructure in Britain was fine. Those who disagreed were marginalised. Yet over the pastten years, many Sams have worked tirelessly to reshape the debate. This document is the culmination of this hard work.

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I’m aware of the current discourse on ‘England’. This is my England. There’s another one that doesn’t appear on this map and I know from direct experience that’s it’s a different place with its own distinct culture.

I’m waiting for the LLM that figures out how our current laws interact with each other to produce the outcomes described (accurately) in this paper, and then chart a ‘cascade of legislative influence’ to help future politicians unravel this unholy mess as quickly and painlessly

I encountered a party from Oregan in my local last night, that was confident they were the first Americans to ever set foot in our Cumbrian village. I didn’t have the heart to tell them there’s a parcel of Bay Area Californians living just around the corner already.

Great image. Let’s keep building.

I love this pub.

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Neither of the UK’s Energy or Foreign ministers have chosen to prioritise lower energy costs as a strategic objective for their government.

Let’s build 10 of these between Macclesfield and Carlisle. Then another 5 between Immingham and Berwick.

He’s fishing - such a tart