European city governments need to be able to innovate if they are to tackle existing and emerging policy challenges. Sudeep Bhargava outlines how best to understand a city’s ability to innovate, and what it will take to build capacity in city governments. This article is part of a series to accompany a new LSE Cities … Read more
In the weeks leading up to Donald Trump’s “liberation day”, diplomats and foreign officials streamed through Washington to secure the holy grail: a deal the president could not refuse, and one that would spare them his tariffs. None succeeded. Trump used rarely-invoked emergency powers to unleash tariffs of between 10 per cent and 50 per … Read more
The UK Government has recently published its official response (the ‘response’) to the public consultation of March 2023 on its ‘pro-innovation approach’ to AI regulation (for an initial discussion, see here). The response shows very little movement from the original approach and proposals and, despite claiming that significant developments have already taken place, it mainly … Read more