City Talks
City Talks: How has history shaped the North’s identity?Andrew Carter is joined by Brian Groom to discuss his new book, Northerners: A History, hailed as the defining biography of northern England
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Size of the prize: What levelling up big cities will do for their regions
If politicians want to level up the economies of different regions, they won’t do it without addressing the underperformance of their biggest cities.
Can the Government strike the right balance between politics and economics?
Kathrin Enenkel explores the tense relationship between politics and economics within the Government's levelling up agenda.
General Election 2019
How can the next government boost productivity and prosperity across the country?Two big domestic issues that the next government will be pressed to address are the UK economy’s poor productivity performance and the north-south divide. Paul Swinney argues that these challenges are one of the same.
Where there’s a will, and it pays: housing development success stories
Almost everyone agrees that we need to build more homes, but housebuilding rates vary greatly across the country and this could be due to local political will
City Talks
Three lessons from Italy’s recent elections for the UK and its citiesBoth Italy and the UK are deeply divided – but Italian cities are better placed to respond than their UK counterparts