Jeremy Hardie has been a trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for thirty years. He is now also a Research Associate at the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics.

Recent articles

Could the next George W Bush or Tony Blair learn to make decisions that are accountable and transparent as well as quick? Jeremy Hardie on the missing element of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink”: democracy.

The fragmenting of traditional politics is making the life of think tanks more difficult. Their potential recruits are seduced by the glamour of power, their funders prefer topicality to thoughtfulness, their university rivals are raising their game. In a political culture transfixed by “delivery”, an experienced grant-maker asks: where will the independent ideas of the future come from?