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Reino Unido
12 episodios
desde 7 de abril de 2026
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Why can't we finance the factory?

Why can’t Britain finance the factories it says it wants to build? The UK has some of the deepest capital markets in the world, yet industrial businesses still struggle to raise the patient, long-term capital needed to expand. That problem is not new. In 1931 a committee was established by the gove…

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If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail Britain's public sector spends close to £400 billion a year (with £90bn of government contracts). So are we really failing to buy British? In this episode I look at the evidence, which suggests that the majority of direct p…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail In 2018, Britain started running short of beer. The cause was not breweries, hops or malt. It was carbon dioxide, and one of the reasons for the shortage was that fertiliser plants had stopped making fertiliser. That strange con…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail Britain is talking seriously about reindustrialisation again. But do we know our own industrial capabilities well enough to decide what to retain, what to build and where to invest? In 1940, Britain had to answer a version of th…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail In June 1897, the Royal Navy assembled the greatest fleet in the world at Spithead for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Among the vessels in attendance was a small experimental boat from the Tyne called Turbinia. By the en…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail Has Brexit damaged UK industry? Ten years on from the referendum, the debate is still dominated by politics. But what does the evidence actually show? In this episode, Rob Gilbert examines the Brexit balance sheet for British in…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail Just how is the offshore wind industry in the UK really doing?  I put that question to Tim Pick on the fringe of Global Offshore Wind 2026 in Manchester. Tim is Britain's first offshore wind champion, a former clean power c…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail A million young people in Britain are now not in education, employment or training, the highest level in over a decade. Alan Milburn’s interim review into young people and work has laid out the scale of it. This episode argues t…
If you have questions, comments or suggestions - please send us a mail  I reflect on Great British Energy's first year and ask an honest question: what has actually changed for the places that have been on the wrong side of industrial decline for a generation? The answer is complicated, but th…
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