Really enjoyed this. For housing delivery, rather than the actual number of homes built it would be interesting to use Housing Delivery Test results - measuring what proportion of housing need local authorities are actually satisfying. My guess is that will give a different answer. But it might not!
"Which rather raises the question: where is the British Google? Or Apple?"
ARM, Virgin, Deepmind, Revolut, Dyson, etc.
For an economy a small fraction the size of the US (and significantly lower productivity), the UK does fairly well producing disruptive, innovative global brands.
Very glad I came back to this - an excellent, lucid post.
Based Milton Keynes being the only place in England that both wants to build houses and actually does build them.
Really enjoyed this. For housing delivery, rather than the actual number of homes built it would be interesting to use Housing Delivery Test results - measuring what proportion of housing need local authorities are actually satisfying. My guess is that will give a different answer. But it might not!
Martin Wolf. Stop it, please.
Excellent read. Complexity of local attitudes reflected well here.
"Which rather raises the question: where is the British Google? Or Apple?"
ARM, Virgin, Deepmind, Revolut, Dyson, etc.
For an economy a small fraction the size of the US (and significantly lower productivity), the UK does fairly well producing disruptive, innovative global brands.