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The Civic Future co-founder and former head of the Government Skills Campus on education reform, what the military gets right about skills and why she...

From my email, from Civic Future: We held our inaugural annual conference The Great Stagnation Summit 2023 last month at the University of Cambridge. Well,…

Despite a magnificent legacy from its industrial and imperial past and a handful of elite universities and companies that keep Britain on the cutting-edge of new technologies such as AI and vaccines, the wealth is highly concentrated among a tiny elite. Real household income hasn’t increased for the past 15 years. The average UK household is 20% poorer than its peers in northwestern Europe.

Advanced economies are not seeing the economic growth that they once did, and none more so than the UK where there has been little productivity or real wage growth since 2008. What factors have contributed to this? Which industries will be at the forefront as we chart a path towards a high-growth British future? Kate

Munira Mirza claims sideways-move culture is “very demoralising” for officials and needs to be fixed

It is always a problem when public-policy positions freeze into an orthodoxy. Orthodoxies presume that we know the answer to difficult questions, which is seldom the case. Orthodoxies also fire up the...

In her new role, Munira Mirza wants to avoid controversy and change the way we do politics.

Politics is scary. From the moment you put yourself forward for selection, you face ridicule, threats and obloquy

released national study has found. The biggest national survey of local news audiences in Australia, conducted as part of the Media Innovation and Civic Future of Australia’s Country Press project, reveals the passion people have for their local newspaper and has found they want a much bigger say about its future. The Australian Research Council-funded project involves researchers from Deakin and RMIT universities with support from Country Press Australia, the peak media body for independent...