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Esme Elsden

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Research Fellow | UCL BASc MSc PhD

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Dan Turner @dtturner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We spoke to John Healey as part of our Harvard-KCL project on regional growth - see what he had to say here 👇
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
⬇️ This timely new report is a stocktake of the policies and spending decisions taken by the Starmer Government, as well as recommendations for what a new Prime Minister can do differently.
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Regional Growth Two Years In: Is the government on track to boost UK growth by closing regional divides?
Labour’s 2024 General Election manifesto claimed the UK’s stagnant rate of economic growth over nearly two decades came from the “inability to accept that a strong economy can only be built on the con...
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
To discuss the report, we were joined by Angela Rayner, Michael Gove, Kim McGuinness and Nick Macpherson as well the report's authors Ed Balls, Dan Turner, Nyasha Weinberg, Anna Stansbury and Esme Elsden.
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💡 Last night we joined @strandgroup.bsky.social for a panel discussion on their newly launched report – written in collaboration the Harvard Kennedy School – entitled "Regional Growth Two Years In: Is the government on track to boost UK growth by closing regional divides?". 🧵⬇️
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 10/07/2026
Keir Starmer’s public service inheritance for Andy Burnham is a mixture of pitfalls, limited choices and some opportunities to push services in a better direction, writes @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Read our latest comment piece: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/burn...
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Burnham should learn from Starmer’s successes and failures on public services | Institute for Government
Keir Starmer squandered the opportunity to reform public services.
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Dan Turner @dtturner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two years ago Labour promised a “devolution revolution” to drive growth. Today, with @officialedballs.bsky.social, Nyasha Weinberg, @annastansbury.bsky.social and @esmeelsden.bsky.social, we publish our verdict: a government at risk of squandering the best opportunity in a generation. 🧵
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ICYMI - our new paper on Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience - why we need to think beyond driving metaphors of neuronal activation 🧠🤔💭
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Tinca JC Polderman @tincatwin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Solid empirical data on mental disorder trends 👇🏼
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024
Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory
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