Tom Forth

Devolution is working and Britain has many large agglomerations.

How Thatcherism left Britain the poorest country in Northern Europe and how a return to competition could fix it.

Britain's economy is weaker than all of its North European neighbours.

Britain has many regional economic inequalities, but entrepreneurialism isn't one of them.

How AI is making me less productive and why it reminds me of British policy discussions.

If London, Oxford, and Cambridge continue to know that they are too big and too cherished to fail, Britain will not thrive.

Yet another dozen people in London thinking about how to return Britain to prosperity is the last thing we need.

Britain's large cities are as densely populated as their European equivalents.

Liberalism famously adapted to industrial reality in Manchester.

Londonmaxxing is based on huge growth in business R&D spending in London.

Britain's economic problems will not be solved by more graduates.

Protected naming rights and why they're great!

Answers to the nine most common questions I've had about the Leeds tram proposals.

The North has been declining since Thatcher.

Lovelace Institutes, why I like the idea, and how I think they could work.

Self-driving cars might make England's big cities rich again.

London is a great city, it doesn't need to claim it invented the steam locomotive or started the industrial revolution.

Why I'd probably rather have an evil tech company in Leeds than a good one in London.

If Britain cannot reasonably disagree on topics as mundane as transport, what hope do we have on really controversial issues?

Lessons on New Cities from Almere and Lelystad.

Why I think every proposal I've ever read for a land value tax in England is a bad idea.

Most people assume that British passenger trains are better than American passenger trains.

French, American, Dutch, and Nordic cities have stronger economies the bigger they get.

What I learned from reading 14 reports and blog posts on a National Data Library.

Why are North England's politicians repeating the myth that investing in the North is worse value for money than investing in the South?

What are clusters?

And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.

But not in the way most people hoped.

How important to UK growth is getting industrial electricity prices down?

How could a new UK government show that it wasn't just promoting data, digital, and AI success in London?

HS2 has been a fifteen year failure of British government and UK national instituations.

When the UK was the richest country in the world its regional inequality was unusually low.

Focusing on Human Capital has failed to level up Britain.

Transport policy for an unproductive country.

And why a real start-up party would start in local government

The unreasonable successes, and failures, of Scottish devolution.

Appeals to exclusionary complexity reduce public trust in expertise and mainstream politics.

For another decade the UK government has invested more in growth in London and South East England.

Markets work best with a single advertised price.

Rishi Sunak is right to avoid the UK government forcing local governments to collect seven bins from people's homes.

Leeds has achieved less with much less investment than it merited.

America's diversity doesn't mean what it thinks and is much more important to its success than it knows.

More of England needs more of the New Elite that Matthew Goodwin describes.

Northern rail chaos continues.

Reclaiming local government’s digital relationship with residents.

Transpennine Express cancel a quarter of their trains, how much does that cost North England's economy?

What I would do as an ARIA Program Director, and why it would fail.

How do the company registers of the British and French states compare?

My review of Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again.

The transport projects that Open Innovations and I will be working on in 2023.