Come for the prices, stay for the history: in many of Britain’s towns, “Spoons” has become the chief steward of civic heritage, writes Adam Hawksbee

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed Adam Hawksbee as interim Chair for the new Towns Unit

When I was asked if I wanted to be an MP, I fudged an answer because I knew it would be met with scepticism . But our stifled laughs mean we're stuck in a doom loop of bad politicians, writes Adam...

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UK housing secretary Michael Gove has issued a holding directive for the MSG Sphere arena, which was set to be designed by architecture studio Populous.

Rishi Sunak has been told by Boris Johnson and David Cameron to drop plans to scale back HS2 amid warnings that a “mutilated” line would be “insanity”.Downing

For years, the Conservatives have refused to budge on the pensions triple lock, even as the cost of it threatens to blow out to £147bn, writes Adam Hawksbee.

Our Square Mile, like many other financial centres in big cities, is becoming a ghost town. We need to act now to bring it back to life

Why Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games was all about getting about An American Perspective, by Jon Bibbins A native Virginian here, reporting from Birmingham, England not Birmingham, Alabama. The...

King’s Cross used to be a dump. Literally — refuse collection was one of its main uses in the 19th century. When planners valiantly tried to improve the look of

Fifty-five towns given £20 million endowment-style funds each over 10 years to invest in local people’s priorities.

Drive-thru coffee shops are hollowing out our high streets and making us less connected to our neighbours, straining the social fabric

We sat down with Adam Hawksbee, one of the most influential voices in contemporary conservative policy-making and someone widely tipped to play a major role in developing conservative thought after

So trusting are the people of Bents Green that shop owners allow customers to pay on credit and residents entrust their bank cards to neighbours when they need

Take the basic non-growth of the UK economy since 2008 (productivity, real wages, per capita gdp) and compare it to their peer countries (which are those?).  If you had to assign the causes of that...

Whitehall insiders say levelling-up secretary Michael Gove wants revamped focus on urban regeneration

Billions of pounds of taxpayer cash will be handed directly to regional mayors in a “devolution revolution” under which Whitehall will cede unprecedented cont

Private companies say an increasing number of routes are not commercially viable. MPs inboxes are filling up with complaints.

Amid housing crisis, post-Brexit drag and hardline migration rhetoric, most 25- to 40-year-olds think party deserves to lose next election