Archive - Nicholas Pickard

UK Government Announces Revolutionary New Economic Policy: “What’s Yours is Now Silicon Valley’s”

Historic move sees UK become first nation to voluntarily surrender entire creative heritage to tech billionaires in exchange for vague promises

Jun 24 •

Nicholas Pickard

May 2025

UK Capitulation to Big Tech Betrays Creators Everywhere

Big tech’s theft of creative work is not inevitable, it is a political choice. Britain must stand with artists, not surrender to Silicon Valley.

May 2 •

Nicholas Pickard

April 2025

Big Tech’s Empire of Extraction

Silicon Valley says it’s building the future, but its methods look a lot like the past. Extraction, exploitation and empire, all dressed up as 'progress…

Apr 23 •

Nicholas Pickard

When the Mask Slips: The Tony Blair Institute’s Tech Report and the Red Line of Cultural Sovereignty

There is bad timing. And then there is the week the Tony Blair Institute released its latest tech report.

Apr 9 •

Nicholas Pickard

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