Research and writing

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At Reform, I write about how to make governments work better. My work includes:

• Everythingism: an essay (on how policymakers forgot about trade-offs).

• Making the grade: Prioritising performance in Whitehall (on the issues of identifying and managing talent and performance in Westminster)

• Getting the machine learning: Scaling AI in public services (on the failures of government to use new digital technology, and how to overcome those to adopt AI)

• Byte-sized budgeting: funding digital services in government

My writing for other publications include:

•  City AM: Will Whitehall get its own Elon Musk? New government must feel the need for speed, and In defence of Treasury brain.
• Civil Service World:  The civil service has a people problem
• CapX:  Labour has dodged the hard choices on doctors' pay
• Digital Frontier:  Scaling the state 

I also regularly contribute to Reform's blog, including:

•  I believe in the Reform Fairy
•  Policy memes (and where to find them)
•  Data: a problem shared
•  Gaslighting the government
•  "The technology isn't the hard part"