🦷 Our first paper from chief economist Tim Leunig is out today - how to fix the dental crisis

How to solve dentistry: use the right staff. In 53 years I could have seen a dental therapist for all but 1 of my trips to the dentist. They cost half as much to train, so we could train twice as many and far more people could have their teeth seen, polished, filled etc.

🚀 Ben Houchen won (once again) because of his clear record of delivery and doing what he promised: green jobs, reindustrialisation with an active state.

Just what Nick Timothy Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 called for in Onward's Future of Conservatism project
ukonward.com/reports/a-cons…

If there’s one thing that requires urgent attention to help us lead in AI, it’s data.

We need a new British Library for Data to unlock AI-ready data for scientists & start-ups. Great to have our research covered in City A.M. today
cityam.com/think-tank-cal…

Is Britain a world leader in AI? Yes…sort of.

The next instalment of our Future Frontiers research is out now!

Read on to learn how the UK’s AI rhetoric can match reality. 🧵👇
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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…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’m an ardent unionist who has little politically in common with Kate Forbes.

But her faith shouldn’t matter in our increasingly pluralistic society. What we’re seeing is SNP’s identity-first politics letting Scotland down.

Latest i newspaper column inews.co.uk/opinion/ardent…

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-…

This is going to be interesting to track and learn from -- from Onward's technology team! Well done --

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…

How to activate the UK’s potential and ensure that Science Superpower doesn’t become an empty slogan?

In the opening of our new series, we map out an overarching strategy that we believe should guide how the Government approaches its science and technology priorities.

Read on👇

Poor broadband and mobile coverage still hold back many rural communities. How do we fix this digital disconnect?

Next month, we'll be talking about this with Environment Secretary Steve Barclay, Sarah Lee, Andrea, and Simon Fell MP.

Sign up 👉 ukonward.com/events/connect…

This from Allan Nixon Onward is so powerful. 👇
Tackles fundamental questions for 🇬🇧 policy makers … how do we seal the deal on the “global science superpower” thingy?
So important …

👨‍🔧 Jobs
💰 Tax income
🔬 Health tech
🤖 National security

Let’s please nail this. 🔨

🚨 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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