Sam Freedman
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
- Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
- Reform UK says it would re-impose two-child benefit cap for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- This is my view. Luckily point 2 really matters.
- This is becoming a critical election for control of the left bloc samf.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
- The Trump regime's greatness weakness is a level of zealotry that makes them wholly unaware when they're handing public opinion wins to their enemies.
- You really do not need to be a liberal or on the left to look at that kid and think that kidnapping him is inhuman.
- Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.... The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them... www.ft.com/content/b474...
