Tom Forth

Why Labour's rumoured free bus passes for under 25s are bad policy, and a further undermining of local government.

The expansion of the EU was the best thing that happened to Britain in my life.

Why is the UK government boosting R&D spending?

Why buy local is bad, but the ideas behind might not be.

Why is the UK government boosting R&D spending?

What's the longest chain of stops on British public transport which are also in alphabetical order?

Why the UK government should invest much less in Oxford and much more in Manchester

Spatial income inequality has been falling in Greater Manchester for two decades.

The Economist's democracy index says France's political culture is as weak as Zimbabwe and Vietnam's, and weaker than China's.

Ten things I'd write in a Yorkshire transport policy tomorrow.

IPPR North are right to predict the the UK government will invest more in South English than North English infrastructure in the coming years.

Ireland's economy transformed from being like Yorkshire's in 1995 to being like South-East England's by 2015.

The UK needs the simple innovation of better regional GDP data more than inequality-adjusted, sustainable, or holistic GDPs.

The device and the browser you are reading this on are better because of state regulation of Microsoft.

Why creating a single UK website for voter registration would be a bad idea, even if it was good.

Too often 'we don't want to be like London' means we don't want to pay our way within the UK.

Investent in London is low value, but our centralised political system means we do it anyway.

We don't use evidence to make investment decisions in the UK.

Birmingham is, unsurprisingly, the most accessible place in Britain.

Nine months on from my first look at the economic impact of the BBC moving to Manchester.

What should we do?

We visited every West Midlands pub in the Good Beer Guide.

What's stopping the North from succeeding.

I worry that people are using the idea of 'inclusive growth' to keep the rich richer and make the poor poorer

Liberal policies that work for more of the UK already exist.

In 2011 the BBC moved some of its operation to Greater Manchester.

The expansion of the EU was the best thing that happened to Britain in my life.

>Why a more unequal Manchester would mean a more equal UK.

There are excellent alternatives to devolution, but they are far too unlikely to happen.

London gets blamed for a lot of bad stuff by a lot of people, but what is it?

Why was Tech North killed and what does that mean for government support for tech in North England and the UK?

Recent announcements of huge jobs losses in the UK steel industry are devastating to the workers and families involved.

Britain benefits enormously from London’s position as the world’s greatest global city.

Are we painting the right picture of a successful future for Leeds City Region, West Yorkshire, and Yorkshire?

The most repeated myth in UK economics is that governments have tried and failed to heal the UK's North-South divide.