𝗢𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀

We're delighted to announce that Science Minister Andrew Griffith MP will be the guest speaker at our next event for centre-right political thinkers under 35.

Join us next week 👉 ukonward.com/events/onward-…

Deviating from my usual science-centric content…

On sat it was a pleasure to give a toast marking the engagement of Liv & Matt 🍾

BUT

The cherry on top was a congratulatory video from Ed Balls & Kate Garraway 🥳👇🏻

Thank you Ed & Kate for helping with a surprise to remember👏🏻

I'm very excited to share the I have joined LSE as a Policy Fellow - leading research on all things London

Here's an inaugural 🧵on what matters most to Londoners using some excellent More in Common data

ICYMI: Tim Leunig's new Onward paper Smiles All Round makes the case for breaking up 'Big Dentistry' to create more appointments.

Swathes of England are becoming ‘dental deserts’, where as few as one in ten can get an appointment locally.

ukonward.com/reports/smiles…

Britain is a world leader in AI. But risks losing ground.

💥 Our data pool is growing at half the speed of 🇩🇪 & 🇫🇷

💥 And UK compute has slumped from third to tenth globally.

✍️ Allan Nixon & Anastasia Bektimirova's look at how we can keep pace:

🔗 sciencesuperpower.substack.com/p/lets-get-rea…

𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴!

We're recruiting a new intern to join our busy team for six months. Please get in touch or share with anyone who might be interested.

Apply here 👇

🔗 ukonward.com/intern/
🗓 Wednesday 15 May

🚀 Onward has launched a new Substack for our Science Superpower programme.

We're kicking off with our upcoming paper Future Frontiers: Allan Nixon and Anastasia Bektimirova explain why we're struggling to build an edge on AI to quantum - and how to fix it

sciencesuperpower.substack.com/p/why-britain-…

🚨 New Onward research🚨

Why are we struggling to be a science superpower? The answer is at the frontier.

Future Frontiers - new research from Anastasia Bektimirova & me - explains why Britain is struggling to build an edge.

Subscribe to new substack! sciencesuperpower.substack.com/p/why-britain-…

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Little late to this but a nice Onward win in the River Wye Action Plan. Intensive poultry farming has devastated the river’s animal and plant life. Our Greener Pastures report called for grants to deal with poultry manure, which is now planned…
gov.uk/government/pub…

Pleased to have flown the flag for development corporations at last night’s Next Gen Tories housing debate.

Standby for Onward research on this very soon!

🗣️ Thank you to everyone who joined us for a lively debate on how the Conservatives should solve the #HousingCrisis chaired by our Director Noa Cohen.

It was great to be joined by Sam Bidwell, Callum Newton & Emma Revell.

✍️ Sign-up now for more ➡️ nextgentories.com/become-a-member

This will be great. 👇 My Onward colleague & housing guru Callum Newton will debate the housing crisis with other leading centre-right think tankers.

Next Gen Tories events always worth it!