How Instagram and TikTok became retail channels, why women lead the kitchen-table business economy, what ten years of data show, where the next decade points, and what it costs to reach an audience — with fully referenced figures.
A desk study of robot density, UK manufacturing jobs, output and pay from 2015 to 2026, read against the peer-reviewed research on robots and employment. Robots move work rather than abolish it; the UK's problem is too few of them.
Desk research on solar panel failure modes and rates, a Weibull projection of UK photovoltaic waste to 2050 checked against IRENA and peer-reviewed forecasts, and what the UK WEEE rules and European recycling plants can actually recover.
Desk research on AI-designed medicines in clinical trials, the UK's petabyte-scale genomic datasets and how they are accessed, the policy and money behind them, and what it means for small biotechs and their IT suppliers.
The credible range of data-centre and AI electricity demand to 2030, worldwide and in the UK, set against generation, grid-connection and emissions evidence, with a worked UK projection and what it means for firms buying cloud.
Who is exposed to generative AI, what experiments and payroll data show about jobs, wages and productivity, how gains are split between labour and capital, and what it means for UK income distribution, regions and SMEs.
Desk research on how much of the AI data-centre build-out is now funded by bonds, private credit and off-balance-sheet deals, what regulators say the risks are, and how a shock could reach UK businesses.
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