<p>The UK urgently needs investment. But no one seems to know whether the institutions that deliver it are working as they should</p><p>Every time an upmarket home is bought in the UK, the new residents seem obliged to rip out the kitchen and install <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/03/how-many-bathrooms-kevin-mccloud-reveals-grand-design-bugbears">two bathrooms where there was only one</a>.</p><p>It is almost a cast-iron rule that walking across the threshold means paying builders to rearrange what was there before, almost for the sake of it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/07/labours-first-job-shouldnt-be-to-spend-but-to-fix-the-states-financial-plumbing">Continue reading...</a>