Your run improved Economy against the no-input alternative by 13 points — a fraction of what the country needs, more than the alternative provides.
On Walsall's pedestrianised stretch, the shutters have come up on two more units than the do-nothing path predicted. The high street is not thriving but it is functioning — a working economy at a slightly lower volume than the 2010s. Better than nothing, short of much.
Health-system outcomes have tracked closely to the no-input alternative. Some measures improved fractionally, others slipped fractionally; nothing moved more than the model's noise floor. The NHS is doing the same job it was doing in 2026 with the same population pressures, broadly unchanged.
Workplace conditions held essentially level against the no-input path. Some sectors absorbed marginal gains, others marginal losses; nothing moved more than the run-to-run noise the model tolerates. The non-event is the news.
The Housing composite tracked the do-nothing path within the model's noise floor. Some build-rate gains, offset by demographic and rate pressure. Rents broadly flat against the alternative. The market is what it was — out of reach for the same demographics, manageable for the same ones.
Aisha, 32
Staff nurse, Leeds
“It's mostly the same. The agency spend, the vacancy rate, the morning handover — recognisable from 2026. I'm still in the shared house in Headingley. The model doesn't think your decade was a wasted decade, but it doesn't think much changed either.”
David, 67
Retired civil engineer, Bristol
“Modestly better than I'd feared. The fiscal picture isn't sound but it isn't deteriorating. The infrastructure spend reached the regions in part. The pension has held against inflation. My grandchildren have slightly more options than the do-nothing path would have given them.”
Joanna, 41
Secondary school teacher, Dundee
“The non-event is the news. The school is still here, the staff are still here, the kids are still here. The decade we were promised would change things didn't change very much. Dundee is still Dundee.”
Margaret, 78
Retired catering manager, Margate
“The decade has gone slightly better than I'd feared. I don't say much else about it. At 78 you don't expect everything to be better. You expect some of it to be tolerable, and more of it is.”
The Daily Bulletin
The composite indicators sit broadly where they were when the decade began. The fairness debate is the same fairness debate. The decade has been an opportunity not taken.
The London Standard
The fiscal pressure composite has eased modestly against the alternative trajectory. Growth has held above the long-run average for the first time in over a decade. Modest improvements, achieved against structural headwinds.
The Westminster Mirror
Britain in 2036 is recognisably Britain in 2026. The housing crisis is still the housing crisis. The NHS list is still the NHS list. The political class spent ten years debating what to do. The country is still waiting for them to do it.
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There's no single high score. Your Britain gets plotted against everyone else's on the trade-offs that matter — and you find out whether it sits on the frontier.
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