Centre for British Progress

💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles/redis…

New CBP report! 👇

DSIT's AI for Science Strategy, highlighted this week in Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture, commits to identifying areas for "AI for Science Missions". In a report out today for @britishprogress, I outline three promising options: pathogen detection, environmental forecasting and

RT @dc_lawrence: The Chancellor has just delivered her annual Mais lecture. Some initial thoughts from me... 😄 I'm very pleased to see...…

Across many countries, land readjustment has proven an incredibly effective way to deliver radical change with the support of existing owners. Another example of smart mechanism design in action.

This is very cool and people should write about it

If you are a journalist that wants to catapult the British Cræft Prize deeper into the world, I made a lovely press release. I will be your friend forever if you write about it! glen-jumbo-527.notion.site/British-Cr-ft-…

🚨 We’re hiring: Data Analyst 🚨 Join us @BritishProgress to source, clean and analyse UK policy data and turn it into clear charts and sharp written analysis that drives our research programme. We’re looking for someone quantitatively rigorous, AI-native in their workflow, and genuinely interested in public policy. £33,000 - £38,000 | London (80 Strand) | 4 days in office Applications reviewed on a rolling basis: 👉 britishprogress.org/opportunities/…

Today, I launch The British Cræft Prize. A new £60,000 national award for maverick and misfit makers, technologists, designers, and engineers. Seeking inventions that fuse the deep wisdom of heritage crafts of the past with cutting-edge technologies of the future. 🧵👇

BIG nuclear news: today the Government has released its plans to implement @JohnFingleton1’s landmark nuclear review. The headline: ‘Building our Nuclear Nation’ is very good news for British nuclear, implementing almost all of the transformational recommendations, but not quite everything. The Government has committed to almost every recommendation and outlined a detailed plan to implement them. The Government says it will fix the outdated radiation rules, revise effective ban on SMRs across swathes of the country, set up a nuclear regulatory commission and more! Last year @BritishProgress launched our Nuclear Taskforce Tracker - today is the first HUGE update. nuclear.britishprogress.org/?new=true

Really encouraging to see reforms to our nuclear regulation! ⚛️

Extremely good news!

@freddie_poser @JohnFingleton1 This is extremely encouraging news. We'll be keeping the tracker up to date as we move forward to the critical implementation stage.

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In 2006, a government scientific body recommended adding folic acid to flour to reduce the prevalence of neural tube defects in pregnancy. For years, that report sat gathering dust.

Last week we launched the Scaling Inference Lab – a testbed within our Scaling Compute programme for AI hardware technologies, prioritising rapid iteration, open collaboration, and long-term sustainability. In a guest post for @BritishProgress's Substack, Programme Director

This is a really exciting programme. Well done to @BramhavarSuraj and @ARIA_research. A great thing for the UK and for the world.

“Britain is uniquely placed to make the Lab work. We can shift focus from trying to outspend the market to fundamentally changing how it operates. We can embrace openness and agility.” Excited to publish this piece by @BramhavarSuraj over on the @BritishProgress newsletter. He

This is a great call from @lfg_uk, well done to @OliDugmore for sounding the alarm! Just before Christmas, our very own @jujulemons & @pdmsero called on universities to tell students the truth about earnings: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/1…

This is an important paper. I had particular fun working on a calculator to help understand the policy. Use it to compare different scenarios and see how our policy would work. …ibutory-migration.britishprogress.org