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The Fight Against Internet Shutdowns
The idea of waking up to a world without access to news, social media, or the ability to contact loved ones is difficult to grasp,...

Foteini Garyfallidou
Mar 103 min read


Google AI Arms Shift Proves Only Politics Can Protect Us
Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Earlier this month, Alphabet, the owner of Google, altered its AI principles to remove a promise...

Jasper Goddard
Mar 43 min read


DeepSeek: The New Kid On The AI Playground
A new AI has emerged, capturing global attention and making waves across industries. DeepSeek, a China-developed chatbot, is proving to...

Foteini Garyfallidou
Feb 53 min read


Are Tech Billionaires the New Global Political Actors?
" You have to stay cool. Don't feed the troll " said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in response to Elon Musk's endorsement of Germany's...

Selene López
Feb 24 min read


Artificial Intelligence - Britain’s First Concrete Brexit Benefit
Growth elusive, markets skittish, and polling dire - it has not been the best of starts to the new year for UK Prime Minister Keir...
Jack Rowlett
Jan 274 min read


Reflections on Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus
Thrust into the international spotlight by his immensely successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind , Israeli historian and...
Andres De Miguel
Jan 268 min read


50 Years Later, Hayek’s Ideas Are Still Relevant
50 years ago, Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of knowledge and why fully controlling societal and economic...
Ogechukwu Egwuatu
Jan 193 min read


Brat summer, Euro summer, Barbenheimer summer, Hot girl summer: Give me a break!
To be “rich,” in today’s society means different things to different people. If you asked my parents, they’d say being rich means owning...
Ayra Khan
Oct 31, 20244 min read


Telegram - Is this the beginning of true tech accountability?
First Meta, then X, and followed closely by Pavel Durov’s Telegram - recently there has been a string of clashes between domestic...
Isaiah Akinlabi
Sep 18, 20243 min read


The Stakes of Big Tech Dominance in AI
Nvidia’s market value has risen past $3 trillion, overtaking Apple as the world’s second-most valuable company by market capitalisation....
Louis Gilmore
Jun 18, 20243 min read


Overcapacity: Eastern Offense or Western Double-Standards?
The US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen visited the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in early April, deeming the PRC’s industrial...
Kalos Lau
Jun 7, 20244 min read


Five Years Old With Smartphones: Is the UK’s Future in Peril?
A month ago, the UK’s communications regulator OFCOM reported that nearly 25% of children aged five to seven years old have smartphones....
Keith Mulopo
May 30, 20244 min read


China, Climate Change and Compromise
As President Putin arrives in China for a two-day visit with President Xi, the Sino-Russo axis appears stronger than ever. The two men...
Joshua Edwicker
May 20, 20244 min read


In conversation with Lord Syed Kamall
Lord Syed Kamall has been a Life Peer at the House of Lords since 2021. He is currently a member of the Communications and Digital...
Dan Sillett
Feb 23, 202420 min read


Taiwan’s Presidential Election: Caught Between China and the Semiconductor Industry
We live in a time of rapidly changing technology and geopolitics. As such, the tech relationships relating to trade, power, and research...
Kashif Anwar
Feb 15, 20244 min read


The Kids Are Not OK: The Rise of the Far-Right in British teenagers
The Internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time, but it's double-edged. It has the power to unite people across the world...
Jack Wilkin
Feb 3, 20243 min read


Snow in Cumbria: White Christmas or Nuclear Winter?
It is a popular pastime in the modern era to imagine how the world is going to end – AI might become a little too intelligent and no...
Lucy Gardner
Dec 14, 20234 min read


57,000-Person Protest on Roblox: Is Digital Protesting The Future?
In cities across the world, tens of thousands of marches have taken place calling for an end to the Israeli bombing of Gaza. At the time...
Caitlin Hoyland
Nov 15, 20233 min read


Digital Imperialism: Can States Ever Control the Internet?
The high seas and the moon are international territories (res communis omnium, in legal terms) controlled by no single state. But as Meta...
Lucy Gardner
Nov 11, 20234 min read


Why are governments ignoring the virtual cold war?
Lucy Gardner Organised cybercrime is one of the fastest-moving, least visible threats in modern society. It is a threat made only worse...
Lucy Gardner
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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