Media

Broadcasting

Host, Rethink, BBC Radio 4 (with the Open University), 2024–. A series bringing new research and ideas to the big questions in politics, society, economics and technology.

BBC Reith Lecturer, 2023. Four lectures on BBC Radio 4 titled ‘Our Democratic Future’, on how to build political systems that can meet the challenges ahead.

Guest, BBC Newsnight, 2024–.

Host, ‘What’s Wrong with Democracy?’, a weekly podcast from Tortoise Media and the Open Society Foundations, 2024.

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Writing

UK Politics Columnist, Prospect, 2025–.

Political Calculus, my Substack on politics, usually with a tilt towards quantitative analysis of political data.

Op-eds in The Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times.

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Selected Podcasts and Interviews

‘Should Starmer embrace populism?’, The Prospect Podcast.

‘How to fix Britain’s broken political system’, Another Round.

Guest, Start the Week with Andrew Marr, BBC Radio 4, January 2020.

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Commentary and Analysis

‘Housing’, in Brexit and Beyond, UK in a Changing Europe. 2021.

‘Social Distancing and the Brexit Divide’, UK in a Changing Europe. 2020.

‘Has Brexit changed the relationship between elections and house prices?’, UK in a Changing Europe. 2019.

‘What impact would electoral alliances have on the election result?’, with Leonardo Carella. UK in a Changing Europe. 2019.

‘Location, location, location? Brexit and the predictive power of house prices’, The Times, September 11, 2019.

‘Indicative votes: is there a majority for anything?’, with Iain McLean. UK in a Changing Europe. 2019.

For reports written for policymakers and think tanks, including Taxing Times for IPPR, see my policy page.