


Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
Stop worrying and learn to love the labour market
Sir Keir Starmer has promised to run a government for the builders, not the blockers. Certainly, the prime minister and his colleagues have given the builders a lot to do. Alongside commitments at the election to build 1.5m homes and decarbonise the electricity grid within five years, the government has also revived several megaprojects, including a new rail line connecting Oxford to Cambridge and a third runway at Heathrow.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Plan it and the builders will come”

British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
The gavel takes on the invisible hand

Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
Labour replaces a simple but controversial system with a complex, clunky one

Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
NIMBYs don’t have the upper hand everywhere
Oxford and Cambridge are too small
Linking up the cities, and letting them grow, could power Britain’s economy
Wanted: a Britain economics writer
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
Must Leeds always lose?
Too prosperous to pity. Too poor to thrive