Julia Lopez

The political leadership of UKRI now belongs to @jreynoldsMP as Business Secretary. So he gets to own the Jodrell Bank decision and the act of self-harm that this gov's hollowing out of our nationa...

On my recent visit to the @HarwellCampus, I stopped in to see @moderna_tx incredible new research hub and vaccine manufacturing site. The result of a ten year partnership deal we signed while in g...

I did not wake up today expecting to explain what a synchrotron is on live radio (albeit in layman's terms as I'm a layman myself) or indeed what we would find if we used one to shoot electrons at ...

Thank you, Andrew. About sums it up. I hope @andyburnham does not allow this destruction to go ahead - here's an opportunity to prove his credentials with the science and tech community after disma...

Will @andyburnham step in to save Jodrell Bank and our nation's critical scientific facilities? Conservatives are calling for a facility-by-facility analysis of the STFC’s cuts and their impact o...

🚨While everyone wonders at the Andyland comms, bad stuff is happening in the real world that our new Prime Minister could stop if he wanted. 📡Today, we learn Jodrell Bank is going to close in 18 ...

If vibes could govern…

This month, @Conserva_Tech launched - a brilliant new group of Conservative-minded tech professionals developing ideas to make Britain the best place to build, invest in, and deploy technology. Th...

I was at the incredible @harwellcampus on Monday just as Andy Burnham was breaking up the UK's Science & Tech Dept and Patrick Vallance was resigning as Science Minister. The last Tech Secretary l...

The protection of our nation has always depended on embedding the best tech into our civil and military defences. What’s different today is the sheer speed with which innovation needs to get into ...

I think a lot of people are watching Andy Burnham's ascent to the leadership of our country... ...his rejection of anything since the 1970s... ...his gigantic spending pledges... ...the return to g...

Two dodgy press releases and we’re not even through week one of Andyland. First, Andy says he saved the country from mandatory ID. We already won the campaign to kill the mandatory ID bit and the ...

Thanks to those of you in the science and tech sectors who have been in touch with me over the weekend to sound the alarm over the steady stream of anti-tech briefings coming from the Burnham camp....

Another day, another anti-tech briefing to the @ft on the Burnham gov after Andy’s pro-union, nostalgia fest of a speech yesterday. The science and tech sectors have only got more important to our...

Welcome to Labour’s Britain. Where 16- and 17-year-olds are old enough to vote. Old enough to have sex. Old enough to be soldiers - but not old enough to be infinite midnight scrollers. Today's Li...

Want to know what Andy’s plans are for housing in London? Tax it and give more power to Mayor Sadiq Khan. What could possibli* go wrong? (*Simpsons S6, E4) Here Andy’s policy guru, Miatta Fahnbul...

Want to know what Andy’s plans are to get Britain's energy costs down? I asked Miatta Fahnbulleh, the lady charged with drawing them up. She was the Energy Minister who presided over a £150 incre...

The works at Gallows Corner have been a transport debacle to which Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, has shown complete disinterest to the point of contempt -despite the impact on residents and busi...

First jobs give the satisfaction of earning, a chance to build a CV, experiences good and bad that build resilience and insights into how businesses large and small operate. We need to make it eas...

Oh ok, Liz. How many of your AI Growth Zones have even managed to get beyond planning?