It may not be possible for the West to find one, but it’s in our interest to try – no less than to support war-torn, Putin-invaded Ukraine.
He has already won back large numbers of voters since he entered Number 10, and both the polls and the focus groups confirm that many more are prepared to wait longer before making up their minds.
British support for Ukraine has so far been unwavering. But how long would it survive the return of Donald Trump?
The first country to achieve the first superintelligence would be able to use it to stop others following. So it had better be us – not a hostile state.
The aim of its attacks is obvious: drive down through the middle of the territory Russia occupies, divide its forces, prevent ammunition and fuel from getting into Crimea, and push into the peninsula once its supplies start running low:
Green Finance may sound admirably ambitious, but if it means diverting capital from efficient, market-driven investments into manipulated ones then we will all suffer. Nobody has voted to be made poorer.
Outsourcing the delicate work of threat detection to venues will do little good, whilst heaping fresh pressure on a struggling sector.
A pro-science and technology agenda requires political decisions no-one is currently pursuing. Taking on some public sector trade unions. Engaging constructively with the EU. Reforming planning law. Embracing the Oxford to Cambridge arc.
We need action. And we need ministers who understand how to exercise power. They need to use that power to take decisions and make sure they are implemented.
We don’t have time to waste. During 2025 and 2026 the TCA, the UK/EU fisheries agreement, the EU’s decision on UK data adequacy and its current policy on derivatives trading all come up for review.
In the geo-political battle of ideas, between an open, liberal vision of government and society, and a more authoritarian template, the continent, overwhelmingly, is in the right column.
I could not in good conscience allow a Bill to continue that would have fundamentally changed the nature of the way we interact with one another for the worse.
Only with my amendments in place can the bill truly protect security, privacy, and freedom of speech.
The UK still a country prioritises freedom. But its citizens are far more deferential to the state than their American cousins – and the language of freedom is far less ideological and far more personal.