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The government needs an infrastructure plan

Building homes without new roads and railways is a recipe for disaster

Dec 19, 2025 • Ben Southwood, Harry Rushworth, Benedict Springbett, and Samuel Hughes

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November 2025

The nuclear taskforce's secret weapon

The one reform I'd wave through with a magic wand

Nov 24, 2025 • Ben Southwood

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September 2025

Subscribe to the new print edition of Works in Progress

A labour of love for our loyal readers

Sep 18, 2025 • Ben Southwood

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September 2024

Foundations: Why Britain has stagnated

My essay with Samuel Hughes and Sam Bowman

Sep 21, 2024 • Ben Southwood

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June 2024

The culture and economics of fertility cannot be separated

Fixing our birth rates will inevitably involve tackling both

Jun 20, 2024 • Ben Southwood

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One weird trick to get data centres built

My post with Sam Bowman over on Consumer Surplus and more

Jun 17, 2024 • Ben Southwood

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May 2024

Developing Palo Alto is worth $1 trillion

And every household that lives there now could have $30 million

May 9, 2024 • Ben Southwood

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March 2024

How to build cut and cover

It may not all be over for the least popular type of tunneling

Mar 15, 2024 • Ben Southwood

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October 2023

When roads are bad

Roads deliver huge benefits, but they have two big costs

Oct 17, 2023 • Ben Southwood

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Why induced demand is fake

And roads are a pretty good way of creating agglomeration, actually

Oct 10, 2023 • Ben Southwood

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The dark secret underlying high infrastructure costs

In the UK we have two problems.

Oct 2, 2023 • Ben Southwood

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April 2023

How to think about immigration and housing

Since Brits own Britain, more demand for Britain is generally good for us

Apr 27, 2023 • Ben Southwood

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