Author archives: Nico Macdonald

Co-curating an event on Progress: The Great Stagnation summit

This July I am co-curating a summit on the theme of Progress, entitled The Great Stagnation summit, which will be a two-day gathering in Cambridge (England) to examine the current state of thinking around progress, industrial strategy, innovation and R&D and how to devise and deliver policies for long-term growth, radical improvements in living standards, …

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Documenting audio-visual content

Precis: In this week’s A Point of View, BBC Radio 4, David Goodhart argues that the focus on manners in British politics may be a function of the main parties’ programmes being hard to differentiate. He believes this is a result of the impact of the Leave vote, which forced both parties to re-orientate towards …

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Launch of growth coalition Britain Remade

I am interested to learn about Britain Remade, a coalition for economic growth in Britain, of which they say, ‘It just needs a voice.’ In the Sun newspaper on Saturday they talk of how ‘We can shape the world with our science and engineering again’, and it reports on a survey Britain Remade commissioned which reveals …

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