Circulating a blog prize that TxP (a London-based tech policy community I co-organise) is running a £5,000 blog prize in collaboration with the New Statesman and Civic Future, supported by Emergent Ventures.

We are asking for submissions to answer the question: Britain is stuck. How do we get the country moving again? 

There will be 5 prizes:

£5000 for the winner, who will have their piece published online and in print in the New Statesman Spotlight

£1000 for the runner up

£750 for 3 other shortlisted pieces

All winners will also win an automatic interview for the Civic Future Fellowship, as well as receiving event passes to the New Statesman’s “Politics Live” conference next June. The winner will also win a 12-month digital subscription to the New Statesman, while all other runners-up will win a 6-month digital subscription.

TxP, Civic Future and New Statesman Spotlight will compile a shortlist to be judged by:

Kanishka Narayan (Labour PPC for Vale of Glamorgan, former tech investor & government adviser)

Sarah Hunter (Non-Executive Director of ARIA, former Global Director of Public Policy for Google X and former New Labour DCMS SpAd)

Richard Jones (Materials Physics Professor and VP for Regional Innovation, University of Manchester)

Sam Freedman (Senior Fellow, Institute for Government, Substack writer, and Education adviser to Ark and formerly the Department for Education)

Alona Ferber (Senior Editor, New Statesman Spotlight)

Munira Mirza (CEO, Civic Future, former Director of the No 10 Policy Unit)

Full submission criteria is available here.