🍻 Come along to our next Drink Tank at the end of the month with the Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP (Liam Byrne MP), where he will discuss, 'Spreading wealth'

📅 Wednesday 24th April 2024
⏰ 18:30 – 20:00
📍 Morpeth Arms, SW1P 4RW

✉️ RSVP here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/drink-tank-w…

Housing is London’s biggest challenge, and Sadiq Khan’s greatest failure.

A transformative pro-housing Conservative pitch would beat Khan, and the ideas are already out there.

My article for Bright Blue ✍️

brightblue.org.uk/james-cowling-…

A couple of years ago I published a report with Bright Blue on the impacts of flooding on UK businesses, infrastructure etc. This was one of the recommendations – use drones for assessing agricultural flood damage.

🏘️ 'A pro-housing Conservative pitch could wipe the floor with Khan' writes Bright Blue Associate Fellow James Cowling for our Centre Write blog

Read here👇
brightblue.org.uk/james-cowling-…

📣Join us on Tuesday 23rd April for our next Ludgate Lecture with Sir Steve Webb (Steve Webb), discussing 'UK state pensions - what went wrong and what does the future hold?'

⏰ 14:00-15:00
📍YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Kdj4lO…
✉️ RSVP for a reminder: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ludgate-lect…

🩺'Expanding the UK’s Wider Public Health Workforce should be the next step in the Government’s public health strategy,' argues William Roberts (CEO of Royal Society for Public Health) for Bright Blue's Centre Write blog

Read here👇
brightblue.org.uk/william-robert…

The Foreign Secretary David Cameron continues to articulate and action the most honest, logical and impactful role the UK can take on the conflict in Gaza

thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…

Interesting to see the centre-right setting out the case for citizen inheritances, re-balancing taxation from work to wealth, fairer residential property value taxes, employee ownership, and more.

🏦 'Politicians must stop shirking responsibility for decision-making – the case of the OBR and Bank of England' writes Callum Westwood for our Centre Write blog

👇 Read here:
brightblue.org.uk/callum-westood…

📝 'Israel stands alone in the Middle East on protecting LGBT right' writes Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 for Bright Blue's Centre Write blog.

👇 Read here:
brightblue.org.uk/bella-wallerst…

📝Bright Blue's William Prescott writes for ConservativeHome: 'Ministers must do more to prepare our homes for a hotter planet – and to bring voters with them'

Read here👇
conservativehome.com/2024/04/01/wil…

✍️New essay by Visiting Fellow at Kellogg, Graeme Nuttall OBE on the role employee ownership can play in reducing inequality and boosting wealth.

Bright Blue Employee Ownership Association Graeme Nuttall OBE

Read more: shorturl.at/chszG

🗳️ 'Forget 2024. The wipeout for the Tories could be 2029,' writes Lachlan Rurlander for Bright Blue's Centre Write blog.

Read here👇
brightblue.org.uk/lachlan-rurlan…

🏫 Bright Blue Communications and Events intern Hailey Pitcher writes for our Centre Write blog: 'An unbiased political education must be mandatory for the betterment of Gen Z'

Read here👇
brightblue.org.uk/hailey-pitcher…

Bright Blue Researcher William Prescott writes for CapX: 'Want to build more houses? Make them greener'

Read here👇
capx.co/want-to-build-…

📝 Bright Blue Research Assistant Sarah writes for The Critic: 'The problem with e-mortality'

Read here👇
thecritic.co.uk/the-problem-wi…

Game changer. Well done Yorkshire Building Society 👏

thetimes.co.uk/article/mortga…

'Britain is in trouble. The luck of birth rather than effort at work is becoming more important in determining life outcomes. This country is becoming an inheritocracy rather than a meritocracy.' - Ryan Shorthouse and Tom Nurcombe write in in this ConservativeHome article.

📝Bright Blue's Ryan Shorthouse and Tom Nurcombe write for ConservativeHome, arguing 'The centre-right case for redistributing wealth' in line with our today's essay collection publication: 'A wealth of opportunities' 💷

Read their article👇
conservativehome.com/2024/03/25/rya…