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Podcast about local economic development and placemaking. Co-hosted by Mike Spicer of PolicyDepartment and David Marlow of Third Life Economics. Mike, David and guests address the divisive, often unspoken issues facing economic development professionals in 2020s Britain.
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- Mayoral Development Corporations: the delivery vehicle that sticks or the latest new toy? · 11 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask whether, after four decades of institutional churn in English regeneration, mayors have finally found a delivery vehicle that…
- Heathrow’s Infrastructure Skills Council: future of labour market policy, or a very Heathrow answer to a very Heathrow problem? · 13 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask whether every major infrastructure project should have to show not just what it will build, but who it will employ. They unpack…
- Three pathways, one sector: early career economists in economic development · 45 Min.In this special guest episode, David and Mike hand over the conversation to three early career economists on three different paths. William Hamilton is a former ODI Fellow in…
- Local government reform: England pauses, Scotland redraws · 12 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike look at local government reform on both sides of the border. On 7 September England withdrew reorganisation decisions for Essex…
- Universities under pressure: can their place-anchor role survive the sector's cash squeeze? · 47 Min.In this guest episode, David and Mike are joined by Professor Andrew Jones, economic geographer and Vice Chancellor and President of Brunel University London, to ask whether…
- Civil Service secondments to Mayoral Strategic Authorities: the capacity building we need? · 12 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask whether the Civil Service secondments to Mayoral Strategic Authorities announced in August 2026 represent real capacity building…
- The return of onshore wind to England: can host communities reap the benefits? · 10 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask who stands to gain as onshore wind returns to England after a decade under a de facto ban. With around 45 applications in the…
- New NPPF: homes, compute and the energy and water question · 10 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask if the new National Planning Policy Framework, published on 17 August 2026, offers an approach that is optimised for local…
- Scotland's tripartite governance test: can devolution go beyond Holyrood? · 40 Min.In this guest episode David and Mike are joined by David Waite, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, to ask what Andy Burnham's "Manchesterism" means…
- What can World Cup 2026 tell us about economic geography? · 12 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike use World Cup 2026's chaotic build-up and predictable result as a provocation about devolution and place-based funding. If a…
- LSIPs: the local skills plans more of us should be talking about · 10 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike make the case that England's new wave of Local Skills Improvement Plans might be among the country's most sophisticated skills…
- Heat mortality and local economic development: who owns the agenda? · 9 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike unpack why, in the shadow of an estimated 2,700 heat-related deaths in England and Wales this summer, longer-term adaptation to…
- Manchesterism beyond Manchester: blueprint or category error? · 11 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike ask what Andy Burnham's "Manchesterism" actually means for the rest of the UK now that he's setting policy from Downing Street. They…
- What do MPs really want to know about devolution? LED talks to the House of Commons Library · 44 Min.In this guest episode, David and Mike are joined by Mark Sandford, senior research analyst at the House of Commons Library, to explore what MPs actually want to know about…
- Planned for or planned around? Mayoral Strategic Authorities and the rural development gap · 12 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike explore whether Mayoral Strategic Authorities can genuinely deliver whole-geography growth or whether the devolution model is…
- Has Belfast cracked inclusive innovation? · 41 Min.In this guest episode, David and Mike are joined by Dr Adrian Johnston MBE, Innovation Commissioner for Innovation City Belfast, to explore whether inclusive innovation can be…
- Council borrowing controls: protecting taxpayers or constraining growth? · 10 Min.In this Espresso Shot, David and Mike unpack the UK Government's new capital risk framework for local authorities — a consultation launched on 28 May 2026 proposing powers to…
- 1 million young people outside the UK labour market: system failure or generational fault line? · 12 Min.In this Espresso Shot episode, David and Mike unpack Alan Milburn's interim review findings into young people and work — a diagnosis that names nearly 1 million 16–24 year-olds…
- When growth assumptions collide with population health: healthy life expectancy and local economic strategies · 10 Min.The UK’s latest healthy life expectancy figures published in Spring 2026 have been described as a watershed moment, and for local economic development they raise uncomfortable…
- Tooling up the profession: what local economic development practitioners need now · 42 Min.In this episode, David and Mike are joined by Dr Glenn Athey to discuss the state of professional practice in local and regional economic development. Using Glenn’s new handbook…
