Sam Freedman

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government who writes regularly on politics and policy for numerous outlets, including his newsletter “Comment is Freed,” which has over 50,000 subscribers and is the most popular UK politics substack. His first book Failed State: Why Nothing Works And How We Fix It has just been published. He also hosts the “Power Test” podcast. Previously he was an executive director at Teach First and worked at the Department for Education as a senior policy adviser. Sam is also a senior adviser to the education charity Ark; Vice-Chair of Ambition Institute; and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust.