The England edition
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The source. The context.
Ofgem’s autumn cap limits supplier prices. Household solar changes how electricity is produced. Neither source establishes what an individual home would save.
Read the briefing →Ofgem · Erhan Kilincarslan
The government has announced a headquarters site, apprenticeships and a change in train procurement. The passenger outcomes of those plans remain to be measured.
Government research reports productivity benefits, but its fieldwork predates the latest management debate. It does not establish a causal effect on revenue.
University scientists score highly in a UK survey, while a new global report records a decline in trust since 2020. The findings cover different questions and populations.
Intermediaries are a common route to news, but few people rely on them alone. Separate research finds falling overall trust alongside steadier views of individual news brands.
Household energy, housing and the transition to a lower-carbon economy.
Technology, employment and the decisions changing how Britain works.
The long view on rail reform, investment and local transport.
Education, universities and research into health and public services.
News habits, public information and the changing relationship between publishers and their audiences.
Environment Agency ·
LSE British Politics and Policy ·
Devon County Council ·
360info ·
12 of 66 stories
India’s claims of a dramatic decline in poverty rest on questionable comparisons, methodological gaps and an economic record that tells a rather different story.
360info · Santosh Mehrotra Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Heartless vandals have been slammed by City of Wolverhampton Council after causing extensive damage to the historic bandstand at East Park.
Wolverhampton City Council
Australia’s renewable energy transition will succeed only if it delivers lasting benefits to the regional communities that host it.
360info · Chris Briggs, Saori Miyake and Elianor Gerrard Energy Futures Research Centre, UTS university, Sydney, Australia
The harder a company pushes to measure individual AI productivity, the stronger the reason it gives each employee using it to keep that productivity out of view. So the gains leaders most need to see become the ones employees have the least reason to reveal. Ricardo Viana Vargas , Joao Henrique Jacinto and Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez call this the “AI disclosure paradox”.
LSE Business Review · Ricardo Viana Vargas and Joao Henrique Jacinto and Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Emotional ambivalence – the simultaneous experience of positive and negative feelings at work – may undermine employees navigating complex work situations. Dave Arena Jr. , Phoenix Chen , Allie Gabriel and Kristen Jones find that among pregnant women this leads to lower confidence and higher turnover. But it can be prevented by different forms of interpersonal support.
LSE Business Review · Dave Arena Jr. and Phoenix Chen and Allie Gabriel and Kristen Jones
Edentulism may contribute to functional disability in older adults, yet cross-national evidence combining multiple analytic strategies and mechanistic assessment remains limited. This study examined the association between edentulism and disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) across England, the United States, and India. We analyzed harmonized data from the English Longitudinal…
PLOS One · Wanqi Tang, Libang He et al.
Singapore’s economic clout belies its tiny size. Boya Yang shows how its development raises questions about the practice of entrepreneurship, and government’s role in creating the opportunities, support mechanisms and skills that entrepreneurs require. And argues that the city-state’s modern entrepreneurial and technological ecosystem provides interesting lessons for countries facing economic stagnation.
LSE Business Review · Boya Yang
Upgrades include the construction of a new central overbridge, 3 new entrances, nearly 40% more rail ticket barriers and increased lift capacity to make journeys quicker and easier.
Department for Transport
Since January 2025, many US federal actions affecting research have looked like isolated administrative decisions. A new report by #DefendResearch and Research Consulting, drawing on 244 academic and news sources, shows that together they form a consistent pattern. Rob Johnson outlines what the report found and what it means for research systems beyond the US.
LSE Impact · Rob Johnson
Organisations budget for the redesign but not for the work of making the new design liveable. Alice Stephenson argues that this uncosted repair labour is both essential to whether a restructure succeeds and likely to fall disproportionately to women — and that the current fashion for flattening is removing the people who perform it.
LSE Business Review · Alice Stephenson
Twenty years ago the term “bamboo ceiling” was first used to describe the barriers to Asian Americans leading multinational firms. And the numbers have barely moved since. But Eugene Cha-Navarro argues that the traits blamed for holding Asian professionals back are building blocks of organisational capability, well suited to top-tier executive leadership if organisations know how to deploy them. Here she introduces her concept of “bamboo resilience”.
LSE Business Review · Eugene Cha-Navarro
Wolverhampton’s food waste collection service starts today (26 October) and residents are being encouraged to join in and discover the benefits of recycling their leftovers.
Wolverhampton City Council