by Andrew Bailey | Nov 4, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews, Fifth Edition, Reviews
Andrew Bailey reviews books challenging our response to Covid and our alleged neglect of the future To this day I can vividly recall my first meeting with Jeremy Heywood over lunch at the IMF staff canteen in Washington DC in the late 1980s. Jeremy struck me then, and... 
by Lucy Smith | Jun 30, 2025 | Articles, Fourth Edition, International Perspectives, Policy Insights, The Budget Collection, The Top Articles of 2025
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... 
by James Ancell | Nov 26, 2024 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Policy Insights, Second Edition
James Ancell, Head of Futures and Foresight, Joint Data and Analysis Centre, offers practical steps for civil servants to focus more on the longer term My partner and I are planning a wedding. Being an analyst, I began with a spreadsheet of costs, possible...
