Is Aria, the UK’s new R&D agency, the answer to low growth?
The "brainchild" of Dominic Cummings, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency will be exempt from the usual departmental and Treasury…
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As personal heart monitors, smart watches are not so smart
The popularity of wearables is muddying health data and fuelling an epidemic of scans and anxiety.
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Science 2040 – why we need a long-term plan for Britain’s scientific industries
A long-term vision for science is needed to help Britain flourish.
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How a brilliant civil servant led John Lewis astray
Sharon White never really understood retail democracy.
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Who owns your face?
How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
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Ancient wisdom helps me survive a storm, but does little for my laptop
My computer is my window on the world. I go to ridiculous lengths to protect it.
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The rise of the new tech right
How the cult of IQ became a toxic ideology in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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UK government backs down on end-to-end encryption in Online Safety Bill
The bill has faced criticism from Big Tech companies over privacy and security fears. Have ministers had a change of…
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Masayoshi Son’s inventor complex
With the public listing of the British chips company Arm, the SoftBank CEO is still set on transforming the world…
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De-optimise your life
Picking up novels from Tube station bookshelves has opened my eyes to the randomness and serendipity technology aims to rid…
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The Policy Ask with Molly Morgan Jones: “The UK must keep working with Horizon Europe”
The director of policy at the British Academy on research funding, the strength of UK arts and humanities, and Barack…
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The Research Brief: why the science department should be exempt from Treasury rules
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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Why the EU has out-Trumped Trump
Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was.
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The algorithms quietly stoking inflation
The prices of most goods are not set by humans, but by automatic processes set to maximise their owners’ gains.
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How Registers of Scotland modernised the world’s oldest land register
Powered by AWS, the Scottish government body is on an evolving digital journey.
How does Britain build a “good” digital society?
The tech sector needs guidance, not laissez-faire governance.
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UK AI ambitions “undermined” by digital inaction on digital exclusion
Lack of access to broadband and a skills gap is costing the economy billions every year, says a House of…
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“Outdated” IT and digital skills gap hinder NHS digital transformation, say MPs
New report reveals legacy tech is a barrier to progress for the health service.
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Beware the midwit trap
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
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Brexit has an upside: Britain could dominate in high-tech goods and services
The EU has slept through the digital revolution. The UK can capitalise on this, if it prioritises data over diplomacy.
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