Just read this, great piece! A lot of it rang true as an outsider living in the city (I am a beneficiary of its resurgent dynamism). I think regardless of Liverpool's catch up growth, it is still uncertain at this point what it is for (economically) which makes its resurgence fragile.

If the government was as committed to "daring iconochlasm", "smashing liberal pieties", and "adapting to the world as it is" as it pretends to be, it would lead the country in a patriotic campaign against the tech platforms and their cartoon-villain owners

The Aeropress is (I say wistfully) a magical feat of engineering because it solves the coffee-making problem of pressure with a free resource: air. But it's a terrible consumer product because it's a one-off purchase. One will last decades.

Caveat: if the revision is big and she thinks the failure to act now would spook markets, she should act. But a strong commitment to act in Autumn would maintain credibility in her and her rules. 3/3

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What I’d really like to see is government/parliament: a) focus on reviewing the regulations it sets out via legislation, and change it where necessary; and b) engage more with the trade offs between regulations it sets.

That is a better approach than taking on regulators I think.

The Times is reporting next up is a hiring freeze

This is a DISASTER

We know Whitehall has a deficit of particular skills & desperately needs to bring in exceptional talent

The Gov has ambitious plans. Having the right people to drive & deliver them is the difference between success & failure