Every month we interview a leader in venture, start-ups and regulation for The Form Playbook, our newsletter supporting founders building in markets where policy matters. This month we caught up with Ed Steele, co-founder of Hoxton Farms. Starting from just a few cells, Hoxton Farms combine cell biology and mathematical…

Every month we interview a leader in venture, start-ups and regulation for The Form Playbook, our newsletter supporting founders building in markets where policy matters. This month we caught up with Dorothy Chou. With a career in policy development and public affairs at Deepmind, Uber, Dropbox and Google, and as…

Every month we interview a leader in venture, start-ups and regulation for The Form Playbook, our newsletter supporting founders building in markets where policy matters. For our first issue, we spoke to Tony Blair, the former UK Prime Minister, on how companies should engage with government and the future of…

Andrew Bennett & Max Beverton-Palmer Here we set out how banning online anonymity is not the answer to tackling abuse, but digital credentials could help make social media safer. …

Recently I’ve been thinking about Twitter, policymaking and context collapse. I started tweeting ~seriously~ at uni, when I was trying to understand tech policy issues and connect with people thinking about them. Then I went to work on tech policy, which is (basically) about structuring problems, figuring out solutions, and…

One of the benefits of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU has been the provision of granular cookie control, e.g.: First, this is a positive step forward and hopefully will become common practice across all sites. However, according to gdprexplained.eu (a great resource!), there is…

When I first heard Scott Smith’s rallying call that we should take more of an active role in determining our futures, I was especially taken by the idea that for the last decade or so, we’ve been stuck in a holding pattern, where uncertainty about the future simply led societies…

UPDATE 28/04/19: This was a very brief thought exercise, and in hindsight there are a few other aspects to tackle. Please now consider this just a live doc of notes, thoughts and scribbles, that I’ll add to, amend and maybe straighten out one day :) I hadn’t heard of personal…

After watching Barack Obama’s farewell speech, I can’t help but feel compelled to do something, or say something, that responds to his challenge not only to improve but embolden globalised democracy. Egalitarian opportunity for education, healthcare and social support should be fundamental to our progress. …