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Theo Bertram

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Theo Bertram, Social Market Foundation director, formerly TikTok, Google, No 10 adviser to Blair and Brown

We must regulate AI – but in a way that ensures continued competition
Technology
By Theo Bertram
We must regulate AI – but in a way that ensures continued competition
There are clearly reasons to be alarmed about frontier AI models. In July, a swarm of OpenAI agents managed to get access to the internet and then hacked systems belonging to another technology company, Hugging Face.
Continuity has been just as important as change in Burnham's first week
Political parties
By Theo Bertram
Continuity has been just as important as change in Burnham's first week
It has been a good first week for Andy Burnham.
Tepid managerialism is dead but the centre ground is not
Political parties
By Theo Bertram
Tepid managerialism is dead but the centre ground is not
For 80 years, the Conservatives and Labour have shared 80 per cent or more of the vote, but – as the results of these elections come in – is the centre-ground dead?
PMQs should give more space to Nigel Farage
Political parties
By Theo Bertram
PMQs should give more space to Nigel Farage
In a recent survey of young people by Onward, six out of 10 felt that “too many people are ignored” by democracy or, worse still, that “democracy in the UK is completely broken”.
This government isn't dead yet
Political parties
By Theo Bertram
This government isn't dead yet
Strategy beats tactics.
In Labour's search for meaning, its MPs will need to be patient
Communities
By Theo Bertram
In Labour's search for meaning, its MPs will need to be patient
Liz Kendall’s welfare cuts this week exposed an underlying tension in the Labour Party between fiscal necessity and political identity.