Your 2025 Re:Think Wrapped 🎁
Researcher
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s finally the moment everyone has been waiting for with bated breath: Your Re:Think Wrapped.
This year saw the release of a frankly ludicrous 125 Re:State blogs — rebranded in 2025 as Re:Think — a 54% increase on 2024’s already-healthy total of 81. We may need to go outside more in 2026.
By the numbers
Across our three workstreams, competition was fierce:
Health: 43 blogs
Whitehall: 41 blogs
Local State: 36 blogs
A narrow victory for Team Health, edging out Whitehall by just two posts. Margins matter.
Prolific pens ✍️
Two writers topped the leaderboard, each clocking up an impressive 13 blogs:
Alice – My personal highlight: Corridor care: the unacceptable new norm in hospitals
A clear-eyed look at how corridor care has shifted from emergency workaround to embedded feature of the NHS — and why that should alarm us all.
Joe – My personal highlight: Reasons not to work at think tanks
An honest account of life at a think tank, written by none other than the Think Tanker of the year!
Highest impact hits 🚀
A couple of blogs really cut through this year:
Civil Service Workforce Statistics – Joe Martin
A forensic deep-dive into the size, shape, and churn of the civil service workforce — puncturing myths while raising awkward questions about capacity and capability.
The next chapter: from Reform to Re:State – Charlie Pickles
The story of our rebrand and reset: why Reform became Re:State, what’s changed, and what we’re trying to do differently.
Read on...
And if you’re still in festive reading mode, do check out our Christmas series 12 Days to Remake the State — policy proposals served daily, with minimal tinsel and no filler.
You can also browse all of our Re:Thinks from 2025 (and beyond) here.
That’s a wrap on Re:Think 2025. Thanks to everyone who read, shared, argued with, or politely disagreed with us this year.
From all of us here at Re:State, have a great holiday break — and stay tuned for many more Re:Thinks in 2026.