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LED Confidential — 138 episodes
Scotland's tripartite governance test: can devolution go beyond Holyrood?
What can World Cup 2026 tell us about economic geography?
LSIPs: the local skills plans more of us should be talking about
Heat mortality and local economic development: who owns the agenda?
Manchesterism beyond Manchester: blueprint or category error?
What do MPs really want to know about devolution? LED talks to the House of Commons Library
Planned for or planned around? Mayoral Strategic Authorities and the rural development gap
Has Belfast cracked inclusive innovation?
Council borrowing controls: protecting taxpayers or constraining growth?
1 million young people outside the UK labour market: system failure or generational fault line?
When growth assumptions collide with population health: healthy life expectancy and local economic strategies
Tooling up the profession: what local economic development practitioners need now
Two‑speed devolution? What the Devolution and Community Empowerment Act really means for places
2026 local election results: democratic noise or delivery risk?
AI and the geography of opportunity: will it widen regional divides — and what should places do about it?
Building the plane while flying it: East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward on making devolution deliver
Has fiscal devolution finally gone mainstream in UK government?
Local Government Reorganisation and the capacity crunch
AI in the economic development professional's day job: tools, traps and human judgement
What does the "Green wave" mean for local economic development and placemaking?
Is energy now the organising principle for local economic development and placemaking?
Team Edinburgh: the growing role of business leadership in shaping modern local economic development
Making sense of England's new Local Growth Fund: regional strategy or tactical retreat?
Pride in Place extended - transformation or tactical top‑up?
English local government’s perfect storm: what it means for local economic development and placemaking
From rhetoric to regeneration: rebuilding England’s regional policy
The Hallett COVID‑19 Inquiry and local economic resilience
How England’s new Visitor Levy could reshape local growth, tourism and government finance
Greenland, geopolitics and local economic development - when global tensions reach local economies
Inclusive growth meets global trade: inside Scotland's Green Freeport model
Crystal ball for 2026: place, pride, and big bets on infrastructure
2025 in review: devolution, the Reform Party, and the future of local government
Innovation Districts 2.0: making growth inclusive
UK Budget 2025: is fiscal devolution finally here?
Can the Oxford-Cambridge corridor become Europe’s Silicon Valley?
Liquid assets: rethinking water’s role in economic development and placemaking
Rethinking post-16 education for local economies in England?
New Towns, new rules: reimagining growth for the 2030s?
Reorganising Local Government in England: 17 proposals, 56 councils -zero consensus?
Pride In Place Programme: promise or patchwork?
Total Place 2.0 and the politics of belonging
Is economic inactivity now the UK's biggest growth challenge?
Political instability, organisational churn, and the rise of hyper-localism—how LED practitioners are adapting in uncertain times
After the ministerial shake-up at MHCLG: what’s next for Local Economic Development in the UK?
Summer reflections: blue sky thinking for place leaders
Health meets place: the NHS 10-Year Plan and local economic development
Place before sectors? Rethinking UK industrial strategy with Paul Swinney
Infrastructure or illusion? Assessing the UK’s new 10-Year National Infrastructure Strategy
Happiness rankings: insightful or irrelevant for placemaking?
Feeding the future: rethinking local economies through the foundational lens
Water and place: threat, opportunity or both?
Spending Review 2025: A turning point for local economic development?
Joining the dots: universities, policy, and place-based impact with Sarah Chaytor
What does the rise of the Reform Party mean for economic development and placemaking in the UK?
What do the May 2025 local election results mean for English devolution?
Power cuts and cyber attacks - economic development in the age of perma-crisis
Can Innovation Districts and Knowledge Quarters deliver genuinely inclusive growth?
What can local leaders do when faced with a major site closure like British Steel?
Trump, tariffs, and local economic development
Transforming place-based growth with Mayoral Combined Authorities: insights from NECA CEO Henry Kippin
St Helena Airport: South Atlantic lessons for the UK's local economies
Does the UK's Plan for Neighbourhoods mark a change in policy direction or repackage the status quo?
How to be an effective place champion: lessons in tech-led economic development from Cambridge Ahead
How will a surge in defence spending affect local economic development in the UK?
Putting the ‘local’ in local government
Should your Local Growth Plan include an AI Growth Zone?
How can local government balance economic growth and environmental goals?
Decoding Rachel Reeves growth plan for local economic development in the UK
How to empower local communities through inclusive innovation and participatory democracy?
What's going wrong with the UK's economic and labour market statistics?
What next for fiscal devolution in the UK?
Is bigger always better for local government reorganisations?
Hopes and fears for UK local economic development in 2025
Creating ‘healthy’ local economies and communities
Will the Get Britain Working White Paper get your place working?
Facing the storm: Jack Shaw on England's Local Authority financial crisis
Should Mayoral Combined Authorities run public services?
Making the UK's Industrial Strategy work for places
What did Autumn Budget 2024 do for local economic development in the UK?
Spatial rebalancing with Henry Overman - Econ 101 for local growth
What now for the New Towns Taskforce?
Attracting SMR investments: lessons from South Yorkshire
Do local deal decisions reveal the UK Government's devolution approach?
The return of spatial strategic planning to England
Re-imagining local infrastructure delivery in the UK
What the English Devolution Bill means for local economic development across the UK
What you need to know about Local Growth Plans
Medellin's urban transformation miracle
What a change in government means for economic development in the UK
Putting universities in their place
UK General Election Special - 2024
How to fix the UK's high streets
What do rising economic inactivity rates mean for the UK's local economies?
The case for revisiting local development strategies ahead of the UK General Election
What do local election results mean for economic development?
What does the evidence say about poverty in the UK?
What are Labour’s proposals for local economic development?
Will PAC's latest report fix Levelling Up funding?
The puzzles and priorities of place: in conversation with Professor Philip McCann
Will the UK Government’s Local Transport Fund announcements put the North and Midlands back on the fast track to growth?
Long-term plan for housing or a muddled hotchpotch?
Is ‘Total Place’ a concept whose time has finally come?
How to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals into local economic strategies
If we were Chancellor for a day...LEDC’s Budget 2024
Cities Outlook 2024 and how to use think tank research better
What’s going on with the Public Works Loan Board?
Mayor Paul Dennett shares the 'Salford Way' of city transformation
2023 - the good, the bad, and the ugly from the year in local economic development
St Helena Uncovered: Insights on economic development and placemaking from the most remote community in the world
Autumn Statement 2023 and local economic development
Tom Forth - using innovations in data to better understand places
Business networks and local economic development
October 23: Levelling Up & Regeneration Act, the UK's latest National Infrastructure Assessment, and 4-Day Week Trials
What HS2 cuts, bus franchising, and Birmingham City Council's bankruptcy means for LED in the UK
What comes after Local Enterprise Partnerships?
Growth lessons from the Women's World Cup, Oppenheimer, and...chess tables?
England's devolution dilemmas: time to reboot?
Solving England's house building crisis, Gigafactory investments, and the Tony Blair Institute's agenda for a tech revolution
Rising inequality and the UK economic crisis: in dialogue with Professor Danny Dorling
UK Shared Prosperity Fund woes, inflation and the impact of relocations on civil service jobs and behaviours
From LED to CEO: Navigating the path to career success in local economic development
Local solutions to failing national policies? Local economic development in May 2023
From books to boom: the potential of universities to transform local economies
Power dynamics and partnership building: local economic development in April 2023
Designing successful economic zones. All about Investment Zones, Enterprise Zones, Opportunity Zones, Freeports...
What the UK's 2023 Spring Budget means for local economic development
Permacrisis...what permacrisis?
Missions, Local Government Finance, and Green Economy culture wars
London 2012 Olympics - the epic journey to transform a city
Jan 2023 - the month in UK economic development
Reviewing local economic development in 2022 - turning point or year to forget?
Can devolution save local economic development from a UK government in turmoil?
Where next for local economic development under new UK PM Liz Truss?
Does the design of funding mechanisms like UKSPF influence economic development?
Is local economic development always about politics?
What makes a great economic development organisation?
The story or the evidence? Which is more important to placemaking?
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