Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
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Civil Servant at DfE, working on school attendance. Previously a maths teacher and school leader in the West Midlands. Not an Arctic Monkey. Views my own.
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
CEO and founder Unlocked Graduates
Board for Children’s Commissioner, Impetus, Get Further & The Times Crime and Justice commissioner. Young Australian of the year in the UK 2025.
Into all things education/prison reform/leadership
Interests - education, medicine, gardening, my husky. PhD in identity/migration in Paris. I head up the Dept for Education’s Strategy Unit (but will most often post about non-work things). Live in Sheffield
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Some other stuff.
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Research and policy for the bravest people in England and Wales. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Happiest in a focus group. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian. Halberdier. Bristol City FC.
Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
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