London Tech Week day five: A week that gave me confidence in the UK tech ecosystem Opinion From the office to the climate, the conversations at London Tech Week point in a clear direction: UK tech is moving from potential to deployment.
London Tech Week sums up everything wrong with UK tech Opinion London Tech Week is complacency in conference form. We wheel out the same statistics about unicorns and call it a job well done.
When AI’s taken all the work, what will we all do? Opinion The possible abundances of the AI-powered future mean that our lives won't be nasty, brutish and short – but will they be devoid of meaning?
Don’t ask SpaceX for projections, reach for the stars June 12, 2026 Elon Musk can’t provide concrete figures showing how much money SpaceX will make from space tourism or asteroid mining because his horizons are lightyears away, says Rainer Zitelmann In 1949, 20 years before the first moon landing, the world-famous American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein wrote the short story The Man Who Sold the [...]
SpaceX: To boldly go where no investor comms strategy has gone before June 12, 2026 The wait for the SpaceX IPO is finally over, but it’s what happens next that will be Musk’s greatest challenge yet, says Tim Focas For what seems like an eternity now, investors have been deliberating when exactly SpaceX will finally become a public company. With the wait soon to be over, attentions will quickly turn [...]
Gulf trade deal: Britain should learn from the success of Dubai June 12, 2026 The free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council is a model of post-Brexit success, says James Price In 211BC, when Hannibal was camped outside the walls of Rome, Livy tells us that the ground his army occupied came up for auction in the city. Such was Rome’s confidence in its own future that it [...]
Why do so many Gen Zs like me love the Pope? June 12, 2026 Pope Leo XIV is appealing to a new generation with TikTok memes, student saints and a firm stance against AI, says Maria Ward-Brennan When Pope Leo XIV was first elected, I’ll be honest: I wasn’t overly keen. Part of me believed the Pope should come from a Catholic country. But this US-born man has changed [...]
London Tech Week day four: Tech still cares about diversity June 11, 2026 Who gets to help shape the future? In London's tech sector, we know diversity is still our greatest strength, writes Russ Shaw from day four of London Tech Week.
Elevate founder Julia Baldet: Hospitality is brutal, but I don’t regret leaving finance June 11, 2026 Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Julia Baldet, founder of City smoothie hotspot Elevate, takes us through her career.
AI is transforming job references June 11, 2026 A startup with less than $20m just automated trust with an AI model that gathers references. Every executive should read this.