Notes about society and building a better future.
Introduction I recently finished the London School of Economics' programme on AI Law, Policy, and Governance. What follows is a series built from the notes I took along the way. This has been written for people who want to understand how AI is being regulated without reading the regulations
From my experience as a former diplomat of an EU member state, these five stages reflect how diplomacy, if not statecraft, produces an outcome.
xAI's Grok for Government model was used during Operation Epic Fury to strike 2,000 distinct targets in Iran within 96 hours.
While both are valid points, somewhere between the speeches and the guided tours, it would be worth hearing from the people who live just beyond the terminal. Their story is part of the airport's story too.
The father who wrote the diary in September 1942 did not know how much longer it would last. He didn't know that his son would grow up in a free country, or that the diary would eventually end up on the internet for strangers to read.
The law was designed to manage a new technology that was poorly understood, and feared by the horse-drawn carriage industry and the public.
It was as if all the barbarity, butchery and horror of war, all the misery, the grief and suffering had been encapsulated in the deaths of these two men.
In her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, European Commission President Von der Leyen outlined plans for the establishment of 'EU Inc', which will allow citizens to register an EU-wide company online and within 48 hours. This is an extract from her speech. The emphasis
Two days of bad weather is all it took for supermarket shelves in Malta to empty out, after ferry services from Sicily were halted.
If history were to be of any guidance, Cuba might give us an indication of how the US could run Venezuela.
The following are some of the more interesting images, posts, links I found throughout 2025, whether online or in my travels.
A few days ago on 11th September, a platform was set up in France with the explicit aim to help consumers take advantage of different prices in neighbouring EU Member States of common staples like cigarettes and alcohol. Carklop's idea is to use the model that BlaBlaCar has
When construction was in full swing before the July 1 opening, the Myongsasimni Beach area was clearly lit up like a beacon. At the same time, lighting had dropped significantly around Wonsan Harbor, downtown Wonsan, and near the international airport.
Where Mafia firms were shut down, lending to legitimate businesses rose by between 0.8 per cent and 2.1 per cent.
Too often we have treated diplomatic positions as political/ad hoc appointments rather than careers that require institutional memory and continuous development