Opinion-in-brief: Cyber crime is here to stay, we need to fight back There is a rising tide of cybercrime in the Big Data world. This year’s London Tech Week should be an opportunity to bolster our digital technologies, making them more secure for the future. Cyber crime is becoming the biggest cyber threat facing the UK. Also known as ransomware, it is malicious software that uses encryption [...]
As UK manufacturing output hits a two-year high, will Brexit rebalance the economy away from services? Damian Hind, economic & social policy research fellow at Policy Exchange, says Yes. Brexit is not a magic wand but it does give us reasons to be optimistic. Increasing manufacturing output and rebalancing the UK economy away from services has been a long standing goal for policymakers. However, the UK’s high exchange rate made this very [...]