Our roads are the arteries that fuel the UK – time to revolutionise how we fund them
By Julian Glover Glamorous multi-billion pound projects like Crossrail and HS2 tend to get all the attention – but none of them matter as much as our roads. Driving, cycling or travelling by bus, we spend our lives on them and it is getting tougher. Figures from INRIX...
The real questions behind Vice Chancellors’ pay
This morning, Lord Adonis announced on Twitter that he would be entering the ongoing Vice Chancellors’ (VC) pay debate by making a speech on the topic, tomorrow, in the House of Lords. Over the past few years, annual reports — by both the Times Higher Education...
How can Government and regulators keep up with disruptive innovation?
From self-driving cars to peer-to-peer lending, new technologies look set to disrupt not just markets, but many of the assumptions which lie behind their regulation. Working with the UK Regulators Network, this week Policy Exchange hosted a roundtable with...
Central banks face challenges that go directly to the heart of their original purpose and function
Central banks are getting ready to end the unconventional policies that they developed in response to the credit crunch and Great Recession ten years ago. Interest rate setting committees are looking at how their expanded balance sheets can be contracted and how rates...
