Matt Goodwin's train nightmare
Plus is everything we thought we knew about economics actually wrong?
On The Abundance Agenda podcast this week:
James looks at the government’s new attempt to make phone signal on trains better – and explores why getting reliable 4G and 5G on the rails is a really difficult problem.
Martin reveals why the Office of National Statistics might have inadvertently broken a whole bunch of economic statistics – and why this is bad if you care about knowing what is actually happening in the country.
And we speak to Labour MP and the government’s Growth Mission Champion Dan Tomlinson about why we need to build, the importance of growth if we want to redistribute wealth – and we try (with limited success) to sell him on the idea that we should make Abundance the guiding philosophy of Starmerism.
The alarming review of the ONS by Sir Robert Devereux is here.
Details on DfT’s Project Reach are here.
John Oxley’s post “Britain can’t manage like this” is here.
James’s post on what the NHS can learn from Dave.
Martin’s post on HS2 and the slow decay of Britain.
The Abundance Agenda is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack, and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!