Instead of picking winners, Peter Kyle should get out of their way June 10, 2026 If Britain is to ever produce a trillion-dollar company, it will not be a result of the schemes announced by Peter Kyle and Rachel Reeves this week. It will be a result of creating an economic environment in which ambitious businesses can start, scale, invest and recruit without needing special handouts or assistance from the [...]
The Debate: Should we build a data centre on Brick Lane? June 10, 2026 It may be better known for bagels, but times they are a changing. Should we put a data centre on Brick Lane? We hear the case for and against.
Is it even possible to regulate ‘misinformation’? June 10, 2026 It's easy to call for crackdowns on 'misinformation', but how do you regulate such an amorphous term, asks Paul Ormerod.
London Tech Week day two: Talent alone won’t be enough June 9, 2026 The UK’s universities remain some of its strongest assets, but talent alone does not determine success, writes London Tech Week's Russ Shaw.
The climate quango empire will keep growing until cheap matters more than ideology June 9, 2026 Net Zero has generated an ever-larger bureaucratic apparatus operating at arm’s length from ministers, insulated from accountability and immune to the question of whether it is actually working, says Anne Strickland Ed Miliband frequently claims that net zero is the economic opportunity of the century. A theory that collapses the moment you open your energy [...]
Starmer’s social media restrictions will mean the government can spy on every phone June 9, 2026 In practice, the government is demanding that Apple install on-device AI nudity-detection software at the operating system level for iOS and that Google do the same for Android. This would involve constantly scanning the camera viewfinder, screen output, livestream, and stored files, and blocking or blurring nudity in real time. This amounts to surveillance technology on [...]
London Tech Week day one: AI talk has come back down to earth June 8, 2026 AI conversations are no longer about possibility, but infrastructure, writes Russ Shaw in day one of his London Tech Week diary.
On this day: Britain’s first banking crisis June 8, 2026 On 8 June 1772 Alexander Fordyce, a partner at Neale, James, Fordyce and Down absconded to France to escape crippling debts caused by a sharp rise in shares in the East India Company, writes Eliot Wilson As 1772 opened, Alexander Fordyce seemed like a wealthy and successful man. He was 42 years old, a partner [...]
Electoral reform could destroy the Labour party June 8, 2026 Labour is playing with fire to consider electoral reform at a time when it’s share of voter support is so low, says Eliot Wilson Electoral reform is one of those issues to which most people give little thought, but for those to whom it matters, it matters a great deal. Changing the voting system for [...]
Even Zack Polanski’s favourite economist admits wealth taxes don’t work June 8, 2026 Gabriel Zucman has told Zack Polanski’s podcast that wealth taxes don’t work – so why are they both so keen to bring them back? Asks Kristian Niemietz “The historical experience with wealth taxation, by and large, is a failure. Pretty big failure.” Who said that? Was it an economist from a Tufton Street think tank? [...]