Britain is secretly pro-building stuff

Plus how the planning system is even worse than we thought, and how to equip the British military for the future

On The Abundance Agenda podcast this week, Martin explores new research which reveals that the planning system is – amazingly – even more dysfunctional than we thought. Then James digs into some new polling from Ipsos, which reveals that a plurality of people are actually supportive of building new homes.

Then we have an update on the National Parking Platform, which we swear is more interesting than it sounds. And finally, we speak to Ben Johnson from the Centre for British Progress about his new paper, Security and Prosperity: Building UK Defence Innovation.

The Abundance Agenda is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack, and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!

You can find James on Bluesky here, and Martin here.

James’s piece explaining why the National Parking Platform is cool is here.

Martin’s latest on bins is here.

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