 | Andrew Haldenby is Director of the independent think tank Reform. He co-founded Reform in 2001. He became Director of Reform in May 2005. His previous organisations included the Confederation of British Industry, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Conservative Party (1995-97). There he became head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, with responsibility for briefing the Shadow Cabinet and Leader for key media interviews and appearances. He studied History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1990-1993). He is currently finishing an MSc in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. |
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
