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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 January 2024 English
A monthly digest of every bit of data available
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 January 2024 English
A Ukrainian solider mans a trench in the Donetsk Oblast (Photo by Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images) Neil Hauer, in an assessment for War on the Rocks of how the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 January 2024 English
Housing is not going to be a topline issue in an election that will dominated by debates about tax cuts and immigration with occasional mentions of the NHS. But it …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 January 2024 English
An Interview with Joseph Nye Jr.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 January 2024 English
As we inch our way closer to the general election, coverage is going to get ever more feverish. The long reads will get more breathless; minor policy announcements will be …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 January 2024 English
Welcome to 2024 and the third year of Comment is Freed. This substack has taken on a life well beyond anything either of us could have expected when we decided …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 December 2023 English
Sam has already published his annual self-assessment and this is mine. Although I have written about the Gaza War, and will return to that early in the new year, this …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 December 2023 English
How have my predictions fared this year?
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 December 2023 English
Official statistics don't tell the full story about the state of public services
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 December 2023 English
Israeli soliders at the site of the Supernova music festival walk between pictures of those killed or captured by Hamas on the 7th October ‘Exterminate, exterminate! That is the only …