Sovereign Albion

Zakia Sewell is a writer, broadcaster and DJ from London. She is the host of Dream Time on BBC 6 Music and the author of Finding Albion, which explores British national identity, folk culture and myth.Here we discuss the origins of Albion, folk culture as an alternative source of meaning and radical history, Empire and greatness, and imagining a new Festival of Albion.01:21 Defining Albion04:19 William Blake’s Albion06:02 Stonehenge Pilgrimage07:27 Unity at Sunrise08:48 The Woo Woo Taboo10:20 Beyond Twee Folk11:09 Making Folk Accessible12:18 Alternative Stories of Britain14:40 Identity and Empire19:25 Exploring British Greatness21:42 Land and Right to Roam28:06 Grime, and New Folk Cultures30:54 Folk Revival and Social Media41:19 Festival of Albion This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sovereignalbion.com

Dan Akarca is Co-founder & CEO at Callosum, a new AI infrastructure company orchestrating and co-evolving heterogeneous chips & intelligence to solve the world's hardest problems.Here we discuss how to move beyond the dominant, monolithic AI paradigm, what we can learn from the brain to unlock exquisite, efficient intelligence, and what this means for redistributing leverage away from the biggest labs and countries to rebuild optionality across the world.00:00 The Brain as an Analogy for AI04:38 Why One Big Model Fails06:57 The Heterogeneous Compute Spectrum, from Datacentres to Edge Computing11:54 Orchestrating Chips and Models16:58 Supply, Demand and the Hardware Lottery29:36 Value Beyond Chips30:43 Bringing Chips to Market35:50 Dynamic Compute Future39:22 Funding and Roadmap43:39 Riskiest Assumptions and Scaling the Team This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sovereignalbion.com

Lawrence Lundy-Bryan is GP at Cloudberry, Europe’s first dedicated semiconductor fund. He also writes the State of the Future substack, which researches frontier technology analysis.Here we discuss how to invest in AI sovereignty, the bifurcation of VC into specialists and AUM agglomerators, the compute gradient, how the government's new venture fund (SovAI) can succeed, and enabling European founder ambition00:00 Introduction01:07 Launching Cloudberry VC01:44 The Future of VC Funds: AUM Agglomerators vs Specialists04:47 Semiconductors: Past, Present, and Future10:21 The Importance of Edge Computing12:58 Europe's Role in the Semiconductor Industry21:38 Investing in New Applications29:23 Government's Role in AI and Semiconductors33:08 Complexity and Capabilities in Industrial Strategy35:57 Domain Elasticity and Building Conviction in New Founders41:41 Lawrence's Decision Making Process47:40 The European Venture Capital Landscape53:43 Raising Collective Ambition This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sovereignalbion.com

In a compelling conversation, John Fingleton, a leading economist and former CEO of the Competition and Markets Authority, and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh, an infrastructure planning lawyer, unpack the challenges surrounding Britain's nuclear industry. They explore historical shifts that halted new nuclear builds and emphasize nuclear's vital role alongside renewables for low-carbon energy. The duo discusses cost drivers, regulatory hurdles, and innovative solutions like small modular reactors, advocating for frameworks that foster timely and cost-effective project delivery.