Economy 2030 Britain needs to get serious about an economic strategy towards a more prosperous, fairer, greener 2030s – can you help? Call for policy ideas to help Britain become a fairer, greener, more prosperous nation 6 October 2022 by Emily Fry and Greg Thwaites The UK’s cost-of-living crisis – with rocketing food and energy prices – is making everyone poorer, and is particularly harmful to low-to-middle income households. But this recent crisis isn’t isolated, because the Britain that confronts it suffers from a toxic combination of high inequality and protracted slow growth. The UK also has great strengths … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030· Living standards· Incomes· Prices & consumption Politicians need to talk about how we can lower bills by using less energy as a winter crisis looms France and the Netherlands have produced guidance to cut domestic energy use under respective ‘energy sobriety’ and ‘dial it down’ programmes 24 August 2022 by Jonathan Marshall The size of our energy bills is due to two things – how much energy costs, and how much of it we use. The first of these, for good reason, is front-page news at the moment. Wholesale gas prices are reaching new highs on an almost daily basis, pushing cost of heating and lighting our … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030 Heat pumps are the future, but Government needs to do more to help lower income families with the costs 16 May 2022 by Jonathan Marshall Of all the transitions associated with net zero, it is decarbonising how we stay warm at home – replacing the boilers that heat five-in-six homes – that will be the hardest. Add in record overnight energy bill increases, and more pain set to come this Autumn, and the challenge seems greater still. Despite this, it … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030 Forget all you’ve heard about working life in modern Britain. It’s wrong The myths perpetrated about modern employment have left us perilously ill prepared for true economic change 23 February 2022 by Torsten Bell Economic change is speeding up. Technology means that industries are shrinking and growing faster than ever. The young change jobs incessantly while firms fire at will, ending the “job for life” enjoyed by previous generations. Everyone moves around the country for work these days, vacating poorer parts of Britain and hollowing out communities. All of … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030· Net Zero Working from home means bigger bills and highlights the need for better insulation ‘Running the boiler all day will see the average household use around 50 per cent more gas than if their home was unoccupied’ 10 January 2022 by Jonathan Marshall With the rise of the Covid variant Omicron, working from home is back. One of the many differences between this winter and last, however, is that working from home has come amid a cost of living crisis, with inflation recently hitting a 10-year high. It’s easy to see the spread of higher prices in day-to-day life, … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030 We all pay the price for narrow thinking on social protection Chip away at the cement of society for long enough and sooner or later something will give 29 August 2021 by Gavin Kelly READ MORE
Economy 2030· Net Zero The latest climate warning further highlights gaps in our decarbonising plans IPCC reports seldom bring good news, but the latest assessment finds that the crucial marker of a 1.5C temperature increase on pre-industrial times could be with us in just two decades 13 August 2021 by Jonathan Marshall The latest summary of global climate science, compiled over years by hundreds of researchers, brings yet another stark warning on how the world is not decarbonising fast enough. READ MORE
Economy 2030 Preparing for a decade of economic change Lessons from the era of White Heat 5 July 2021 by Gavin Kelly Boris Johnson’s administration may well oversee the start of a period of major upheaval for the UK economy – quite possibly the largest since the 1980s. Whether it is post-Brexit trade dislocation, new patterns of production and consumption resulting from the imperative of Net Zero, a long Covid hangover, or the rise of digital technologies … Continued READ MORE
Economy 2030 The UK is entering a decisive decade of economic change without a plan to shape it 20 May 2021 by Torsten Bell The UK is facing a decisive decade of economic change that the country is neither used to, nor prepared for. It’s time to rebuild our approach to economic success in the light of those shifts to the jobs we do, the firms we work for and the places in which we live. Simply muddling through, by … Continued READ MORE
