This week's Media Review: Friday 6th February 2026

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In Radix Joe Zammit-Lucia says that now is Europe's big moment but asks if it can seize it.

In The Times, Simon Nosworthy argues that the property market in the UK need a full-scale revolution.

Lex in the FT explains the view that private equity won't rescue UK housebuilding.

In LabourList Murad Qureshi offers Land Valuation Tax (LVT) as the solution to high street renewal.

Ralph Blackburn in the Yorkshire Post reports on changes to the Treasury rules in the Green Book which aim to boost infrastructure investment in the North.

In Politics Home Duncan Hames looks at the Mandelson affair, saying that we must deal with a corrupt system, not just the person who abused it.

Finally, we watched Radix Chair Vicky Pryce on the Making Money podcast as she discusses how honest politicians are about the state of the economy, what is really going on and how it can be fixed. Vicky and co-author Andy Ross introduced their book Mismanaged Decline: What Politicians Won't Tell You About the Economy in a recent Radix webinar.