This piece from Nate Silver on where political beliefs come from is excellent

Particularly on how political views are shaped by which group people want to identify with or against

natesilver.net/p/for-most-peo…

The claim that the grad visa has been a great 'boost to AI research' runs counter to the evidence collected by the Migration Advisory Committee - main growth has been in low tariff / non-research universities

neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-delivero…

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…

Spent the last five minutes reading quotes from this thread to the Onward office

Gavin: 'I don't even speak French!'

The mayoral elections tomorrow aren't a Westminster proxy vote - they're an answer to a simple question: 'How am I doing'?

Wrote more about this for City A.M. here 👉 cityam.com/how-am-i-doing…

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

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…

Don't worry, it probably won't!

cityam.com/if-our-politic…

Onward Michael Gove Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 Nick Timothy An interesting and important study on how to revive growth policy in the UK, with important lessons for conservative parties in Canada, Australia and the U.S>

🚨 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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In our new report for Onward, A Conservative Economy, Nick Timothy and I chart a new path for conservative economic thinking.

Key to our argument is that Britain should seek to reindustrialise - to improve its productivity, security & balance between its regions...🧵

An important and engaging piece of work from our friends at Onward - sure to provoke a powerful debate among economists and policymakers.

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…

We need not only radically different policies, but a different way of thinking about economic policy itself. We need to reindustrialise Britain.
My column today is on the Onward report I've co-authored with Gavin Rice 🇬🇧, endorsed by Michael Gove: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

commentators: 'levelling up will years (maybe decades) to achieve, it was 100 years in the making!'. same commentators 2 years later: 'I see no progress towards levelling-up, the policy has failed!' ft.com/content/d68d96…

Today, we're publishing, 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, endorsed by Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove.

Co-authors Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 and Nick Timothy argue we need to reindustrialise Britain to build a fairer and more productive economy.

🔗 ukonward.com/reports/a-cons…