This week's Media Review: Friday 26 June 2025
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In the Meet the Leaders webinar Vicky Pryce, David Peretz and Prof Andrew Lambert discussed Our Place in the World: What's next for the UK and China? Watch the replay here.
Hugo Duncan in This Is Money looks at calls for pension funds to invest in UK companies or risk tax reliefs being taken away in the Autumn budget.
Josiah Mortimer in Byline Times reports on the cryptocurrency loophole which would allow foreign donations to UK political parties.
In London Economic Bill Curtis describes the launch of V16 the new campaign to reduce the voting age to 16 and its support from Andy Burnham.
James Hurley in The Times looks at removing barriers to growth in the UK which could add £82Bn to the economy.
Finally in LibDem Voice Barry Smith says the crumbling state of Parliament is a metaphor for the state of the political system.
DAVID BOYLE
At Radix Big Tent we were devastated to hear of the death of
David Boyle on the 20th June. David was a co-founder of Radix and our Policy Director until he 'retired' - still busy with so many projects - in June 2024. Our CE
Ben Rich pays tribute to
David's remarkable and generous talents and legacy.
'Many people like to think of themselves as radical. Few actually are. David Boyle - Radix’s Policy Director from 2016 when the think tank was founded, until June 2024 – who died last week, was the exception. At the same time, David was incredibly humble and would be the last person to think of himself as in any way remarkable. I had the sense that he was often genuinely - if pleasantly – surprised by the interest that others took in his unique and innovative way of thinking. Nobody wrote better and more engagingly than David, often about quite complicated subjects from coproduction to town-planning.. Amongst his many generous traits was that he always thought the very best of those around him, and I was deeply flattered that he assumed I was as widely read as him and could keep up with him, even when he had in fact left me far behind. He has left me behind again, and Radix Big Tent and I will be much the worse for that, but so much the better that he was here in the first place.'
Read the full obituary here.
A further obituary can be found in LibDemVoice with Ed Fordham describing David as 'the nicest of reluctant philosophers.'
