The last time I wrote about surges in VPN use it was in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and there was as surge in VPN provision to enable Russian people to access mainstream news media...

As we try to wind down for summer - tech policy just keeps hotting up. There was no shortage of policy topics in the sun this week - from the new age verification measures going into force in the UK...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being invited to discuss the week’s news on the BBC World Service Weekend morning programme. One year on from the Crowdstrike outage, I had a chance to share some...

It has been another big week in the cyber and AI policy and governance space (I feel like I have been saying that every week since January now!). Although I didn’t make it over to NYC, I was watching...

It is another week of following the very many spinning plates of tech policy issues. As Elon Musk shifts from running DOGE to seeking to run a political party in response to the passing of the “One...

Last week was another big week of following the long tail of the Israel-Iran ceasefire, and the ongoing activity particularly in the information domain, as well as watching the NATO Summit for how...

Most of us have had our eyes firmly fixed on the Middlle East over the last week and particularly the US dramatic intervention on Saturday night that challenged many of the bets of when or if the US...

I can remember one of these weekly blogs at the beginning of the year when I said that tech policy was already delivering at an exponential pace. This week, six months into the year, and the tech...

It has been another non-stop week in the world of cyber and tech policy and especially at the intersection with defence. As the UK released its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review hot on the heels...

This newsletter is a little later this week as here in the UK we sit amongst swirling rumours for the long-awaited Strategic Defence & Security Review. For the non-UK readers this has been a massive...

It was easy to be just looking upwards this week with the US announcement of a planned Golden Dome missile defence shield, based on Israel’s iron dome, to counter ballistic missiles, advanced cruise...

It is always a privilege unravelling geopolitics with the brilliant Asja Francisti of Bloomberg Adria and particularly yesterday as the news of the EU-UK agreement was breaking. In particular we...

It’s often said that April has showers and May has rains, and it certainly has been raining if not pouring on the cyber and tech diplomacy front as we go into the third week of May. But picking up...

Great to kick off the morning wearing my UCL Political Science and School of Public Policy hat with Mike Graham on TalkTV discussing Trump's Middle East tech deals, economic interdependence as the...

Well it has been another jam packed week for those following cyber and tech policy. With interesting tech policy issues spinning out across from across the globe and through all the domains.

RSA week is always a key week in any cyber policy watcher's calendar. With a fair amount of FOMO at not being there in person I was watching it closely from afar particularly the North Korea IT...