David Skelton

David Skelton is a writer, strategic adviser and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, politics and the future. He has built foresight teams, advised senior leaders and helped global institutions confront uncertainty and long-term change. He helped embed foresight and scenario techniques within Google’s public policy function. Alongside this, he has played a leading role in developing the intellectual case for a realignment in British politics. He is the author of Little Platoons and The New Snobbery, which examined the social, cultural and economic forces reshaping Britain. The New Statesman has described him as ‘one of our most prescient social and political writers’ and Jon Cruddas has called him a ‘political pioneer’.