💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress

Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage.

It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇

britishprogress.org/articles/red...

After months of waiting, dead excited to give this a read. The rest of @unlearnecon.bsky.social's stuff is excellent, I doubt this will be any exception.

Congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow Alicia Cavanaugh and Prof. Brian Robinson on their recent publication in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Read it here! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In Cambodia, half the operations to detect active cases of tuberculosis have halted.

They estimate it has led to around 100,000 people missing screening, 300 drug resistant TB cases going undiagnosed, and 10,000 drug susceptible cases going undiagnosed.

🚨 New paper 🚨 A method for measuring urban vitality and relationship to street-level characteristics using time-lapse images, that scales globally. 70 years post Jane Jacob's writing about vitality, we show, for the first time, the relevance to African cities: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you, Jimmy Carter.

This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...

A major new report from @centreforcities.bsky.social calls for the Government to take much bolder action on reform to be sure to achieve its goal of 1.5 million new homes this Parliament!

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I love how every single UK voter focus group is all 'we don't want more identikit posh boys. We need a change', and then you show them whoever looks the most like Tom Tugendhat and they go 'yeah, something about him says "Prime Minister", you know';