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An internet for the many, not the few

The year is 1989, Steve Hogarth has just joined this author’s favourite band Marillion and in the depths of Cern, in Switzerland, a British scientist Tim Berners-Lee has just invented the world wide web. This is probably the most revolutionary invention of the 20th...

Khan’s focus on technology will be a winner for London

Sadiq Khan yesterday did what few Labour politicians have done in recent memory – put a pro-business, pro-technology platform centre-stage of his manifesto. He and his team are right to do so. London is already the tech capital of Europe, and we are closing in on New...

Hardwired for the future

The last week has seen the publication of two reports into the state of the rollout of broadband in the United Kingdom, neither of which make happy reading for government ministers. Both Ofcom and the Institute of Directors have been critical – either explicitly or...

Delivering on the politics of the periphery

Three years ago in Progress I wrote about the need for what we would now call ‘one nation’ Labour.  Welcome as this approach is, I remain unconvinced that we have a coherent rural and coastal programme to campaign on that makes the new brand credible. While the Tories...
Tackling cyber attacks

Tackling cyber attacks

Last Friday the government published the UK Cyber Security Strategy setting out the threats we face and how the...

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