Pragmatist

You would be forgiven for uttering a very long string of properly ripe expletives on learning that the current UK government has the chee...

Recent issues concerning the purchase of lethal materials online, "fake news" and secure messaging highlight a growing tension ...

A slightly dispiriting day at The Alan Turing Institute 'Financial Summit', yesterday, I'm afraid to say.  The ATI itsel...

Professor Nick Bostrom delivered an inspirational speech for the SCL last night on "Superintelligence: a godsend or a doomsday devic...

I've been a bit absent from these pages of late, partly pulling together SCL's Technology Law Futures Conference in June on '...

Some interesting discussions these past few weeks about the potential for innovation and 'disruption' in the insurance markets. A...

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt finally admitted yesterday something that the likes of Jaron Lanier have been warning us about for some ...

Crowdfunding directories are becoming useful, given the wide variety of potential models, specific geographic and other constraints, an...

Our continuing economic woes seem to reveal a UK Treasury that has lost touch with the fundamental tax and regulatory problems in the UK ...

Last night, at a ResPublica event, I heard Nick O'Donohoe , CEO of Big Society Capital , outline a pragmatic vision for a social inv...

The news that Kickstarter, a US rewards-based crowdfunding operator, has opened a dedicated UK platform is hugely encouraging for anyone...

The UK government has announced a cross-departmental working group to support the sustainable development of peer-to-peer finance (aka ...

Thanks to IPPR and The Finance Innovation Lab for an invigorating seminar on bank reform this morning. I've noted some of the h...

On Saturday I got my Level 1 rugby coaching ticket, which means I can teach kids up to 12 to play rugby. I also get to wear a knee suppo...

There's a lot of talk about 'restoring responsibility to banking', and 'returning banking to its sober Quaker roots',...