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Why the UK needs to be better at long-term strategy
Lucy Smith, this year’s Heywood Fellow, says other countries may be leading the way Short-termism, blind spots, lack of planning by the British state. These are not new problems. In his 1946 essay In Front of Your Nose, George Orwell wrote of the widespread habit in...
From gut feeling to ‘grounding’ the truth: Policing’s quiet revolution
Matt Bland highlights examples of evidence-based innovation on the front line, and what policy professionals across the Civil Service can learn from this experience In 2021, Kent Police faced a pressing challenge shared by all forces across the UK: how, in the face of...
Is blending hard and soft power the UK’s secret ‘superpower’?
Catriona Laing describes how we can learn from the thinking and actions of Joseph Nye and Jeremy Heywood In an age when hard power seems to be in the ascendancy, soft power might feel like the diplomatic equivalent of handwritten letters – elegant but outdated. And...
Why government needs a fresh ‘nudge’
David Halpern, founder of the world’s first behavioural insights unit, says it’s more important than ever that policymakers understand human behaviour Back in the early days of Tony Blair’s newly created Strategy Unit, I invited Danny Kahneman to join us for a...