Politics on the Couch

'System Fail' - a conversation with Sam Freedman about the way Britain's broken politics can suffocate even the best intentions.


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Host Rafael Behr talks to author, policy expert and podcaster Sam Freedman about his new book Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It


Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and an Ark Schools adviser.


He writes about policy and politics for numerous outlets, including the Financial TimesSunday TimesGuardian and New Statesman.


With his father, he runs ‘Comment is Freed’, Britain’s most popular politics Substack.


He has spent his career working in different policy-focused roles around Westminster, including as an adviser to the then opposition leader, David Cameron, and as a senior policy adviser at the Department for Education for three years, working with (friends of the podcast) Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings.


Feedspot has chosen Politics on the Couch as one of the Top 25 UK Psychology and Political Science Podcasts on the web.


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