Read Leo’s arguments about shifting grounds in the manufacturing sector here.
As the the past generation’s political and economic settlement continues to slowly unravel, a newly human economics of planning, coordination and foresight must emerge.
The standard narrative of British manufacturing tends to be one of blanket doom and gloom. For all the well-meaning if half-hearted attempts by Vince Cable to rebalance the geographical and sectoral basis of the UK economy, the despondence about lost manufacturing, and perverse class snobbery towards those who make things, continues to die hard.