Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.

Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government

Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law. Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort

Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm

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