Sovereign Albion

Here in Sovereign Albion , we are interested in exploring and scaling British greatness. So I wanted to speak with Elijah , a friend and artist who’s a very special person to have that conversation with. Elijah is a writer, DJ, and founder of the record label Butterz . He came up through grime and pirate radio, a scene that had to build its own infrastructure, and in doing so produced something to...

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 Albion 04:1...

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 bigges...

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 fo...

Sovereign Albion is a new platform, exploring who we are, where we're going, and how we get there, told through the lens of the builders – of companies, state capacity, and the nation – making it real. This launch episode is with John Fingleton and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh , who were part of the UK’s brilliant recent Taskforce on Nuclear Regulation . When it launched, the report quickly became a rall...