WEEKLY DIGEST

Some brilliant responses to last week's piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on deindustrialisation (Guardian)

Gareth Wyn Davies visits Abraham Moon tweed mill in Yorkshire (Telegraph)

Great audio interview with Margaret Howell (RSA)

Sunderland's Brewlab gets new lab (SIBA)

An interview with Robert Boyd-Bowman of Alexander Boyd English shirtmakers (Spitalfields Life)

Manufacturing debate in Leeds: more support from government needed (Yorkshire Evening Post)

Dyson invests £1.4m in manufacturing by launching professorship at Cambridge (Business Review Europe)

Osborne's 'march of the makers' lacks a magic ingredient (Guardian)

Inside the Vanners tie factory: video above (Make it British)

A piece that escaped my attention last week on the future of UK manufacturing (Channel 4)

New homewares brand to be made in UK (Housewares Live)

WEEKLY DIGEST

Items of note on manufacturing in the UK and related subjects from the last week:

The newly unveiled McLaren production centre looks pretty swish (Design Boom)

Inside Pashley: Britain's oldest bicycle maker (Humans Invent)

"The design and making of things is terribly important, especially at this moment in time." Sir Terence Conran on Front Row (BBC R4)

Why doesn't Britain make things anymore? (Guardian)

related: Aditya Chakrabortty on the 'de-industrial revolution' (BBC R3)

Fiat boss urges CBI: keep UK factories open (Guardian)

McLaren image from Design Boom