🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

I appreciate this is a bit of a niche topic but you might be interested in our thoughts on how the HM Treasury Green Book 📗should be revised, and use improved. www.arup.com/insights/a-n...

Third time lucky. We actually did it! #CPFC ❤️💙🦅🦅

Trump will get even more angry with Harvard, this time for promoting the principle of Habeas Corpus

Blossom on The Grove in #Ilkley this afternoon.

Bradford City Hall in 1875. From the Historic England photo archive. heritagecalling.com/2025/02/27/a...

Strong Yorkshire, strong Australia.

I agree with every single word of this.

This is very good. 👇

Made in Guiseley #Leeds www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

Wrote about whether Labour has a plan for regional growth, after a speech last week in which the most eye catching headlines were all in the south east on.ft.com/3EnEmCR

1. Sounds wonkish, but this is really important. The Government have announced another review of the @hmtreasury Green Book as part of a recent announcement of measures to boost economic growth. In this article I suggest 7 calls to action. 🧵 www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-br...

The most notable thing about the government announcement today of two pilot projects to work with Mayors / city regions to promote inward investment is the fact that this needs to be piloted as a specific initiative. Shouldn’t this be happening already? www.gov.uk/government/n...

25 reasons to be optimistic in 2025. I do not subscribe to all the doom and gloom about the UK. When it comes to topics such as the economy, regeneration, housing, infrastructure and good government I believe there is a lot to be positive about. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-br...

Lovely walk today at Bolton Abbey.

My thoughts on the English Devolution White Paper. A 🧵 TLDR: significant strengthening of the Combined (soon to be Strategic) Authorities model, albeit with little of substance in some important areas. For CAs it will now be all about focus & delivery. www.gov.uk/government/p...

But they didn’t get a tourism tax. And of course they wanted one, because you’re mostly taxing other peoples constituents