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🏆 A study by @AMION_tweets has revealed that the 2026 @BRITs contributed £5 million in direct spending to the Manchester economy.
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The @BRITAwards 2026 deliver £5million boost to Manchester in first year outside London, with the Mayor of Greater Manchester calling it "a recognition of our unmatched music heritage" nme.com/news/music/brit-awar…
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The results are in! The 2026 @BRITs brought more than just music to Manchester...
An independent economic and social impact study has found that the BRITs 2026 delivered:
🎵 £5m in net additional expenditure in Manchester
📈 £3.45m in Gross Value Added
👥 15,497 days of employment for Manchester-based workers
💡 £11.2m in monetised social impact
🎟️ Almost 25,000 people attending the Awards and wider BRITs programme
From BRITs Week gigs and Fringe Lab education days, to exhibitions and industry events, the BRITs programme reached far beyond the awards themselves.
With the BRITs returning to Co-op Live on 27 February 2027, the legacy of the move to Manchester continues to grow 👀
More here: brits.co.uk/news/2026/brit-a…
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The BRITs’ move to Manchester contributed £5 million in direct spend, over 15,000 days of employment, £3.45 million in Gross Value Added, and £11.2 million in monetised social impact says report out today aboutmanchester.co.uk/brit-a…
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AMION undertook the official BRITS economic impact study looking at the effect of hosting this landmark event in Manchester - see BBC post
Brit Awards boosted Manchester economy by £5m, study finds bbc.in/4rPYmT9
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What's going to happen when a generation of private renters start to retire with no housing security?
This week's Substack (an extract from Homesick) asks a question that housing policy is frighteningly unwilling to contemplate:
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Doesn’t need experts. The cost of building the average UK house has risen 50% in 5 years - half of which is tax and regulation. Strip those back, volumes will follow.
EXCLUSIVE 🗞️- Britain’s economic watchdog, the OBR, is concerned that it may have to revise down the boost to GDP it had attached to Labour’s flagship planning reforms and 1.5 million new homes target.
The OBR has invited housing market experts in for meetings in a bid to “understand why the housing market is underperforming” so badly.
This will be a blow to the government and signals the state of our housing market amid worsening economic headwinds including inflation and higher mortgage rates which, in their defence, are neither Labour’s fault nor entirely within their control.
It also raised questions about the OBR’s initial forecast which experts have told me was optimistic at best.
My report @theipaper
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Council housing we designed for people in Newham #peterbarberarchitects
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A new economic valuation tool could help local authorities weigh up the public health impact of urban development decisions, according to research from three UK universities.
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Supermarkets are nothing short of a modern miracle.
A large Tesco Superstore carries around 40,000 product lines, sourced from over 20,000 British farmers and 70 countries, available year-round. A feat of logistics unimaginable just a few generations ago.
Yet in Britain today the supermarket is cast not as a marvel but as a villain, blamed for the very prices it has spent a century driving down.
A strong majority, 70 per cent, believe that supermarkets are making excessive profits. However, this conclusion has largely been driven by misinformation.
The public believes that supermarkets are making 32 pence for every £1 that shoppers spend. In reality, their margins are around just 3 pence per £1 spent, compared with the all-industry net margin benchmark of roughly 8.5 pence.
When you inform voters about the profits supermarkets make, public opinion shifts dramatically. The level of agreement that supermarkets are profiteering drops to 32 per cent, while disagreement rises to 44 per cent.
That represents a fall from +58 to -12 in net agreement that supermarkets are profiteering, an unusually large shift in public opinion from providing just a single piece of additional information.
My latest for @iealondon: economicaffairs.co.uk/p/the-…
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Last week Treasury secretary Scott Bessent directed his department to double its purchase of treasuries, in an attempt to bring down the price.
Rob Armstrong and Katie Martin pick apart the Trump administration’s unprecedented behaviour. ft.trib.al/rgiJUPM
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“Where they have been implemented in other countries, rent controls have led to lower availability of private rental housing, reductions in quality, and more households living in properties that do not suit their needs.”
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Mayors to get powers to overrule councils on planning decisions dlvr.it/TV8YQN #ukhousing
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Barratt Redrow trading update. Buying own shares rather than land. Purchases in free fall, down from 22,500 plots to 3,029. Minimal sales increase forecast for 26/7. Any more nails needed for 1.5m forecast? No. Mr Burnham’s (new?) housing minister best abandon that pledge.
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D Tel (£) Although housebuilders have smaller debt piles than they did in 2008, house prices have stagnated and the companies are enduring a prolonged squeeze on costs – with no respite in sight. telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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New vision from Urban Splash unveiled for Swansea's Civic Centre - "unique opportunity to transform the site" insidermedia.com/news/wales/…
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How do we save the wilting new homes market? ft.trib.al/oAC8D8b | opinion
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