Andrew Hopper

Three Policy Pieces At some point I realised that, as an NPF rep, I should probably stop writing high-concept, philosophically inflected blog posts, and actuall...

Policy Making as Aesthetic: Three policy proposals I recently submitted to Labour's NPF.

All moral and communications theory aside, it won't work. It has never worked anywhere else. We have no good reason to believe it will work here. It won't work, and it is dangerous.

The Diagnosis Crisis: Reimagining Minds in a System That Misses the Point There are hundreds of thousands of people currently on waiting lists for neurodivergent diagnosis in the UK. Every few months, this crisis...

Neurodivergent recognition shouldn’t depend on performance of pathology.

Labour’s Immigration Pivot: Managed Rhetoric or Moral Retreat? The Labour Party’s newly unveiled immigration package marks a calculated shift toward control, selectivity, and political defensibility. I...

Labour’s new immigration package demands scrutiny - not just for what it does, but what it signals.

The Missing Link: Why Labour Needs a Theory of AI Power The UK’s public conversation about artificial intelligence is stalling. The discussion is dominated by familiar polarities: AI as a prod...

Oh look, another AI hot take.

Fractured Foundations: Ontological Security and the Challenge of National Resilience Introduction: A Shifting Security Paradigm At a recent evidence session of the National Policy Forum's Britain Reconnected commission, we...

A nation-scale mid-life crisis? Britain is ontologically insecure - as bad as it sounds, but, luckily, potentially fixable:

‘Conversation on future of aid long overdue’: UK looks to lead response to swingeing US cuts Huge cuts by Trump administration to international aid budgets has left a vacuum and Britain is looking to lead efforts to find a path forward

My post yesterday was, as it turns out, timely - I promise I had no prior knowledge of this! Exciting and intriguing announcement:

Thanks everyone who is following me so far. After I deleted my Twitter account last year, I took an extended social media detox - looking forwards to starting again somewhere a little...nicer!

I'll open my account with my new blog entry, on the subject of my NPF work: