Clifford and Hogarth mainlined the EA cult into the British administrative system. They cannot have believed how easy it would all be. Cummings had already tapped Clifford to run his crank tank ARIA, giving it a beach head. ARIA now runs programmes with Renaissance Philanthropy, a massive EA operation.

Tweets like this are really bizarre to me, and feel like they’ve been beamed in from another dimension. Let’s talk about “tech firms”. Palantir is basically a consultancy - it really doesn’t have a technology moat. Tesco and Nectar are vey unsexy, but they can do everything Palantir can do, and have been doing it for years. By contrast, a lot of the ground breaking innovation in quantum, medical instruments and semiconductors is British, with quantum spin outs from hard science from our Universities turning into products and finding capital. If these are not “tech firms” they are nothing. No shade intended at Legatum or whatever you are called this week, but it’s really time the think tank world hired some people with science degrees, capable of appreciating what we invent here, and ask our genuine tech firms what they need to help them sell more incredible products. Weatimsterland has zero tech or science cred today.