The Abundance Agenda
The Abundance Agenda
SMRs vs Big Daddy Reactors
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SMRs vs Big Daddy Reactors

Plus has Northern Powerhouse Rail saved HS2? And we dig into a controversial digital identity proposal.

On The Abundance Agenda this week:

  • James and Martin desperately try to avoid committing any anti-NIMBY hate-speech

  • James is vindicated as Sizewell C has finally been funded!

  • Martin digs into the economics of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

  • We explore the implications of Rachel Reeves supporting Northern Powerhouse Rail

  • …And James enters ‘The Cope Zone’ and explains how maybe – just maybe – the northern leg of HS2 might not be quite dead yet

  • Plus we speak to Kirsty Innes from Labour Together about her new policy paper, “BritCard: a progressive digital identity for Britain” – and explore how digital ID could make Britain work better.

The grid website Martin mentions is here.

You can find James’s howl of despair about the slow pace of infrastructure here.

Michael Dnes’s thread on how (maybe) (possibly) (perhaps) HS2’s northern leg might not be dead yet.

Martin’s piece on Natural England will be here.

And James’s piece on why he’s been Blairpilled on digital ID will be here.

If you’d like to talk business, you can contact us on martin (at) abundancemedia.co.uk

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You can find James on Bluesky here, and Martin here.

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