Chop this tall popinjay!
Has levelling up the North been abandoned? Is the government spooked by voters in Amersham? Jim looks at the prospects for real money and power being devolved to our cities, towns and countryside.
July 22, 2021
Our consistently inconsistent PM is a Disastrous Leader for a Crisis
‘U-Turn’ may not have been in Margaret Thatcher’s vocabulary – but its top of Boris Johnson’s political playbook. Frank McKenna reflects on the Prime Ministers tendency to change his mind at the tip of a Twitter storm in his latest Downtown blog.
New brand for Liverpool Place Partnership
The collective of businesses who represent Liverpool at MIPIM has rebranded to the Liverpool Place Partnership, to reflect its new direction.
The Third Way on Covid
Ryan Wain from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change discusses how the way beyond Covid isn’t a binary choice between lockdowns and ‘freedom day’, there is infact a third way.
A week in America | 23 July 2021
Martin Liptrot takes a look at the US embargo of Cuba and its impact it has had on the Caribbean island during COVID.