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False Economy – Why is Britain so unproductive?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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The Crud Economy and the Big Challenges of the World Today

I can't help but always think of this in the terms of a special advisor thrown into the government. Maybe a more positive and less messed up government than this one are being asked, what should we do? One of the things I did as industrial strategy advisor for Theresa May was help work on these things called grand challenges. The green economy is an absolute classic one of that. We need to do enormous things in order to be compliant with net zero by 2050. And the aging economy is another one. So these were two of the grand challenges that I sort of pushed for and then got immolated in the sort of John Sonja in government afterwards. But you know, there's still vest

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