Charlie Walker works in strategy and operations for an AI start-up. He was previously an adviser on youth and digital strategy in parliament.
In recent years, a trend for a particular kind of career move has begun to crop up in British public life. A small but revealing cluster of senior political figures has reappeared not just on the after-dinner circuit or in the House of Lords, but inside America’s most powerful technology companies. Rishi Sunak now advises
An older friend once described his freshers’ week in some detail: a botched proposal, two inadvertently-acquired tattoos and more alcohol than he cared to remember. Mine was rather different: I was confined by the pandemic to a 3×4 metre room with solitary meals in an exam hall canteen. Corridors determined household bubbles (there were two
