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🏛️ The civil servant's view: how to work with ministers

🏛️ The civil servant's view: how to work with ministers

With Andy Ormerod-Cloke, a former Deputy Director in the UK Civil Service.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🥀 The death of language

🥀 The death of language

With Anna Dolidze, the former Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Georgia.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🪞 The lived experience paradox

🪞 The lived experience paradox

Kirsty McNeill MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
📜 Brand as a policy influencing tool

📜 Brand as a policy influencing tool

Rowan Emslie, Chief Communications Officer at the Centre for Future Generations, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi

Most recent

🚗 Lee introduced the 20mph limit in Wales: here's what he learned

🚗 Lee introduced the 20mph limit in Wales: here's what he learned

With Lee Waters, Member of the Senedd for Llanelli, and the former Deputy Minister for Climate Change.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🗣️ What would you do if war broke out?

🗣️ What would you do if war broke out?

With Catherine Day, Co-Founder of the National Strategy Project.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🗣️What would Aristotle say about politics today?

🗣️What would Aristotle say about politics today?

With Alan Finlayson, Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi

Archive

🚗 Lee introduced the 20mph limit in Wales: here's what he learned

🚗 Lee introduced the 20mph limit in Wales: here's what he learned

With Lee Waters, Member of the Senedd for Llanelli, and the former Deputy Minister for Climate Change.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🗣️ What would you do if war broke out?

🗣️ What would you do if war broke out?

With Catherine Day, Co-Founder of the National Strategy Project.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🗣️What would Aristotle say about politics today?

🗣️What would Aristotle say about politics today?

With Alan Finlayson, Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🫁 When the policy doesn't have lungs

🫁 When the policy doesn't have lungs

With Jemima Hartshorn, Founder of Mums for Lungs.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🏛️ The civil servant's view: how to work with ministers

🏛️ The civil servant's view: how to work with ministers

With Andy Ormerod-Cloke, a former Deputy Director in the UK Civil Service.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🥀 The death of language

🥀 The death of language

With Anna Dolidze, the former Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Georgia.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
⚡ How Reform will take back control

⚡ How Reform will take back control

Danny Kruger MP, the man in charge of Reform's preparation for government, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🤯 How to make government work

🤯 How to make government work

Henry de Zoete OBE, who has variously been a Prime Minister's Adviser on AI, a Non-Executive Director at the Cabinet Office, and a Special Adviser, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🤯 The curse of knowledge

🤯 The curse of knowledge

Anna McShane, Director of The New Britain Project, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
⚗️ If you don't distill your ideas, someone else will

⚗️ If you don't distill your ideas, someone else will

Ben Guerin, Co-Founder of Topham Guerin, and one of the architects of the Conservative's 'Get Brexit Done' campaign, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
🧠 How to get government to think long-term

🧠 How to get government to think long-term

James Ancell, the Deputy Director for AI Integration at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the former Head of Futures and Foresight at the Cabinet Office, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
📉🧠 Think tanks are in an intellectual recession

📉🧠 Think tanks are in an intellectual recession

Frank Young, the Chief Policy Officer at Parentkind, speaks to Tom Hashemi.

Tom Hashemi
Tom Hashemi
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