Strategies and technology for the liberal order
Based in Brussels and London, TRD Policy is a political strategy firm with a mission.
We support defenders of the liberal order under attack from populists, religious extremists and other enemies of democracy and the rule of law.
As well as providing strategic political advice we support campaign operations for organisations that share our mission.
Our in house technology team is developing the next generation of political analysis and campaigning sofware. Based on the latest advances in political science, we're working on quantitative guides to political volatility for financial market participants; quantitative trade policy intelligence, and techniques to close down the communications distribution gap between populists and evidence-based campaingers.
TRD In the NEWS
An article by our founder, Dr Garvan Walshe, in Foreign Policy explores how Dominic Cummings threw away his government's polling lead made himself irrelevant by breaking lockdown rules.
How Johnson's adivser threw away his ideas for a radical government
Cummings won’t change his behavior, but the environment in which he operates has changed dramatically. From now on, every new initiative will provoke a yellow warning light, to which Cummings’s long list of enemies will draw the prime minister’s attention. Cummings’s grand schemes will succumb to the subtle triangulations and undignified sausage-making of everyday politics—arts at which he does not excel. Read more
How Brexit made Britain more European
Our Director of Research, Dr Tim Oliver, in a study co-authored with Garvan Walshe for the Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies argues that leaving the EU has in fact made Britain more, rather than less, like a continental European country.
the process of withdrawal has exposed the decentralisation and fragmentation of the formerly exceptionally unitary UK state that began in the 1990s, with tensions emerging from Scotland and Northern Ireland voting to remain while England (with the exception of London) and Wales voted to leave. Read More