Last Men, we are.

With Francis Fukuyama.

🍲 Too many cooks spoil the strategy

With Sarah Davidson, Chief Executive at Carnegie UK, and a former Director General in the Scottish Government.

🔓 We're taking a break.

The One Big Number

With Ayesha Baloch, Head of Youth Employment Policy at Impetus.

Whose job? Your job!

With Joe Martin, the Associate Director of Policy at Demos and a former UK civil servant (across the Department for Transport, HMRC and the Cabinet Office).

Comms-Alt-Delete

With Jack Jeffrey, Head of Research and Policy at the Fairness Foundation, Co-Editor of Renewal, and member of the advisory board for the Future of the Left project at Policy Exchange.

What won't show in your parliamentary monitoring

With Kate Nevens MSP (Edinburgh Lothians East), the Scottish Green Party's spokesperson for Equalities and International Development.

The challenges of salience

With Helen Dempster, Programme Co-Director and Policy Fellow at the Centre for Global Development.

🤷‍♀️ Do you speak human?

With Jane Kinninmont, the Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Association – UK.

⚓ Ideology is stability.

With Phil Tinline, the author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares, and Power Failure: A new theory of power.

🏛️ The role and function of government reviews

With Ian Acheson, a former prison officer, prison governor, and senior Home Office official, who held the pen on the government review into Islamist extremism in UK prisons.

🔥 Politicise everything.

With Harry Scoffin, housing campaigner and Founder of Free Leaseholders.

✂️ The skill three foreign secretaries admired

With Lord Peter Ricketts GCMG GCVO, who has variously been the British Ambassador to France, the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office, and Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

🧱 The components of a successful campaign

With Katherine Sladden, Executive Director of Breakthrough.

👯 Have you got a digital twin?

With Erica Schoder, Executive Director at R Street.

⚠️ Do we have good institutions?

With Paul Scully, who variously been Minister for London, Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, and Minister for Local Government and Building Safety.

🧱 Another BRIC in the Wall

With crossbench peer Lord Jim O’Neill (who coined the BRIC acronym), and who has variously been Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, Chairman of Chatham House, and Commercial Secretary to the Treasury.

🔎 The 4 signs of a highly effective think tank

With Todd Moss, Founder and Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub.

💨 Is your strategy looking a bit... wafty?

Objectives, why they matter, and how to know if yours are any good.

📈 Why we should adopt the philosophy of marginal gains

With Lord Mark Pack, member of the House of Lords, and former President of the Liberal Democrats (2020-2025).

🪤 The trap many comms people fall into

With Stephen Waddington, former President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, academic, consultant, and director of Wadds Inc.

🚗 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.

🗣️ What would you do if war broke out?

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

🗣️What would Aristotle say about politics today?

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

🫁 When the policy doesn't have lungs

With Jemima Hartshorn, Founder of Mums for Lungs.