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Notifications from Teams, emails and broader university bureaucracy shape the experiences of academics across the UK. In this fictional story, Les Back explores the inner life of a university professor. Read more in this contribution to the Dispatches series.

This report examines the realities beneath the language of “levelling up”, competitiveness and renewal. It argues that UK freeports must be understood not simply as experimental economic tools, but as an increasingly common spatial strategy in which legal, political and institutional norms are selectively reworked.