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A characteristic feature of British society in 2017 is division. Leavers are pitched against Remainers, young against old, graduates against non-graduates. But perhaps the starkest way of understanding...

Week beginning 15 October 2017 Our report on the growing divide between cities and towns was covered in the Observer, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Politics Home and a range of regional newspapers. Report co-author Will Brett also set out our ‘manifesto for towns’ in the Huffington Post. NEF’s Griffin Carpenter’s letter to the Times outlined the case for setting sustainable fishing...

Last weekend, Jeremy Corbyn raised an intriguing possibility. “Imagine an Uber,” he said, “run co-operatively by their drivers, collectively controlling their futures, agreeing their own pay and...

Last week we launched our public land map, pinpointing where land is for sale and identifying developments on sites already sold. Today we are going to use our map to explore how developers use the...

Towns and cities have always been divided. They have always been home to different types of people and different patterns of economic activity. But new research by Professor Will Jennings for the New...

Report by Will Brett, Adrian Bua and Rachel Laurence  A characteristic feature of British society in 2017 is division. Leavers are pitched against Remainers, young against old, graduates against non-graduates. But perhaps the starkest way of understanding social division in the UK is to consider the places where people live. The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 laid bare some of...

New analysis shows growing electoral divisions between cities and towns, with Labour gaining ground in cities and Conservatives winning in small towns Report shows how electoral divide maps on to existing economic differences, with many cities benefiting from global growth while many towns get left behind New Economics Foundation sets out ‘manifesto for towns’ to bridge the divide Towns...

After its recent ban in Scotland, fracking is firmly back on the media and political agendas. But is fracking a necessary economics boost for the country, or an environmental disaster we should avoid...

A new website will help councils and community organisations to build ‘good’ local economies. Launched by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies and the New Economics Foundation, with funding from the Friends Provident Foundation, it brings together case studies from across the UK on housing, finance, energy, procurement and commissioning, and local economics. Called ‘Building a Good...

The best part of a year late, the Government this week finally published its Clean Growth Strategy. It’s pretty decent as far as it goes – but that’s nowhere near far enough. This legally required tome...