On this week’s episode of The Abundance Agenda, hosts James O’Malley and Martin Robbins celebrate the fact that Britain is actually building something – specifically, a massive new Universal theme park in Bedfordshire.
They dig into why the park will be well located, what it will mean for Bedfordshire and British growth – as well as why it succeeded while similar plans for a new theme park in Kent failed.
Then the show moves on to the drama over British Steel, and Martin explains how we got into the mess that forced Parliament to dramatically nationalise the company.
Plus we roll our eyes at several wrecking amendments to the Planning Bill that have been proposed not by a dinosaur Tory, but by… a newly elected Labour MP.
And then finally, we speak to JP Spencer, Director of Devolution Policy at Labour Together about his new report, titled Nation Rebalanced.
It’s a packed show – so have a listen!
The Abundance Agenda is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!
You can find James on Bluesky here, and Martin here.
You can find Nation Rebalanced here.
Here’s the great video about the planning battles of Thorpe Park that James mentioned.
And here’s our newsletters for this week:
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