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We're delighted to share that Thomas Brayford, who chairs and moderates our lunchtime series, has been accepted onto the Just Peace Fellowship for 2026–27. The Fellowship brings together a cross-party, cross-sector cohort drawn from Parliament, public policy and civil society, united around a single aim: strengthening the UK's capacity to pursue peace through justice. Over the coming year, Thomas will take part in expert-led masterclasses, in-person mentoring, practitioner ex

Our co-founder Dr Olha Mukha has completed the 2026 Statecraft and Imagination Fellowship at Delphi Global Research Center, one of eight emerging Ukrainian leaders selected for the programme this year, alongside Anna Nishnianidze, Kateryna Kovalenko, Justin Esiobu, Hlib Dolianovskyi, Maksym Chebotarov, Roman Vydro and Alina Zubkovych. The Fellowship opened with an intensive two-month online phase before the cohort travelled to Washington, DC for a two-week residency, from 3 t

Our co-founder Steven Lacey was named Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Changemaker of the Year at the MRS Excellence Awards 2026 — recognition for a career built around getting seldom-heard people into the room where research and policy actually get made. The award, initiated and sponsored by Truth and judged by a panel chaired by Dr Mark Thorpe, recognises individuals across the research, insight and data analytics sector who have led meaningful action on equality, diversity

Ask a room of planners, policy experts, strategists and marketers to describe the working class and you get a job, a postcode and a shopping basket. Ask a working class person the same question and you get something else entirely — a story about their dad, a set of manners, a strong view about who looks down on them. That gap is where most mainstream campaigns quietly fail. Not with a disaster — just with work that is slightly off, that people watch without recognising themse