Sam Freedman

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and a senior adviser to Ark Schools. He writes about policy and politics for numerous outlets including the Financial Times , Sunday Times , Guardian and New Statesman . With his father, he runs ‘Comment is Freed', Britain's most popular politics Substack. He has a following of over 140,000 on X/Twitter. He has spent his career working in different policy-focused roles around Westminster, including as an adviser to the...See more

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and a senior adviser to Ark Schools. He writes about policy and politics for numerous outlets including the Financial Times , Sunday Times , Guardian and New Statesman . With his father, he runs ‘Comment is Freed', Britain's most popular politics Substack. He has a following of over 140,000 on X/Twitter. He has spent his career working in different policy-focused roles around Westminster, including as an adviser to the leader of the opposition and three years at the Department for Education as a senior policy adviser. Failed State is his first book. See less