Jennifer Williams

A year ago, I started following how the cost of living crisis was playing out at an Oldham school, checking in with the fantastic @NewmanRC_Head every few weeks. I ended up learning a lot about the British state, and its education system, to boot. on.ft.com/3KYWPWv

In 2004 West Yorkshire’s productivity was higher than Greater Manchester’s. In the period since then it has fallen behind; by a long way. And the comparison with the UK average is not good either.

Was at Howard’s Memorial yesterday. What an extraordinary impact he has had on our great city, and what a prescient influence he was on what made a difference, in politics and regeneration. Proud just to have spent some time with him in Manchesters reconstruction at Hezza’s side.

The Howard Bernstein tribute newsletter: the lessons ministers should take from Manchester’s unfinished business on.ft.com/3Z48Otx

Very happy to see @TheDataCity data featured in the FT. Using our website matching and AI classification technology we've been able to classify the UK's companies into (five of the eight) sectors in the industrial strategy and then cluster them together. on.ft.com/4fKB75w